Definitions For Mythicism

Noun

MYTHICISM. (countable and uncountable, plural MYTHICISMs) (theology) the scholarly opinion that the gospels are mythological expansions of historical data the habitual practice of attributing everything to mythological causes; superstition, the opposite of rationalism, or of realism the creative potential for the creation of mythology; the faculty of mythopoeia the view that a certain figure is unhistorical or mythical, chiefly in the context of pseudo-scholarship or conspiracy theories. {{q, in particular}} the opinion that jesus of Nazareth did not exist in any way whatsoever

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mythicist

Etymology

from myth + -icism. in occasional use since the 1840s. The earliest use of the term was in Christian theology, in reference to the ":w:christ myth theory, mythic theory" of D. F. Strauss (1835). The more general sense appears from the 1870s.

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