mythicism

1. (theology) The scholarly opinion that the gospels are mythological expansions of historical data.Examples: "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)"countableuncountable

2. The view that a certain figure or event is unhistorical or mythical, chiefly in the context of pseudo-scholarship.countableuncountable