Mythicism Definition
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(theology) The scholarly opinion that the gospel is mythical.
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The habitual practice of attributing everything to mythological causes; superstition, the opposite of rationalism, or of realism.
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The creative potential for the creation of mythology; the faculty of mythopoeia.
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Origin of Mythicism
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myth+-icism. In occasional use since the 1840s. The earliest use of the term was in Christian theology, in reference to the "Mythic Theory" of D. F. Strauss (1835). The more general sense appears from the 1870s.
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