Etymology

mythicism

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Today it means: The scholarly opinion that the gospels are mythological expansions of historical data. Full definition →

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From 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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