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The aim of this paper is to demonstrate in what way and for what reason Dogmatic Theology cannot possibly embrace the docetic idea of a phantasmic Christ shaped by Marcion and traced by Tertullian in his Adversus Marcionem. We will conclude that the concept of 'phantom' --in its extreme version, i.e., irreducible to the polarized dichotomies in Western theology and metaphysics: matter and spirit, tangible and intelligible, soul and body, etc.-- is the true Antichrist and the blind spot in the Christological dogma. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]