mythicism English

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What does mythicism mean?

mythicism noun

— (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.

— (in particular) the opinion that Jesus of Nazareth did not exist in any way whatsoever