mythicism

Noun

countable uncountable in particular

(theology) The scholarly opinion that the gospels are mythological expansions of historical data.

Japanese Meaning

（神学）福音書は歴史的な事実を神話的に膨らませたものであるとする学説

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Scholars debating the origins of early Christianity have increasingly cited mythicism as a plausible explanation for certain gospel narratives.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

初期キリスト教の起源をめぐる議論で、学者たちは、福音書が歴史的事実を神話的に膨張させたものだという学術的見解を、特定の福音書の記述に対するもっともらしい説明としてますます引用している。

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(theology) The scholarly opinion that the gospels are mythological expansions of historical data.

1845: "Truly, if the caput mortuum of Christianity which mythicism leaves us, be all that is true of our religion, our feelings would tempt us to forgive the Evangelists who have so beautifully deceived, rather than the critics who so coldly disenchant us." (The Christian examiner, vol. 39, p. 160)

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