mythicism

  1. Noun.  (theology) the scholarly opinion that the gospel is mythical.
  2. Noun.  the habitual practice of attributing everything to mythological causes; superstition, the opposite of rationalism, or of realism.
  3. Noun.  the creative potential for the creation of mythology; the faculty of mythopoeia.

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