mythicism

Definitions

• (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.