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After I mentioned Paul Regnier\u2019s draft on my blog<\/a>, Jim West complained that he had hoped the post would offer my own definition of mythicism.<\/p>\n

Since I plan to contribute to the Wiki too, I thought I should offer my own summary. And so I began writing this post.<\/p>\n

But then a commenter named Ian summed it up<\/a> more succinctly than I was going to. He wrote:<\/p>\n

\u00a0man->myth or myth->man<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That sums it up well. In a nutshell, while mainstream historians and scholars say that there was a historical Jesus of Nazareth who is later increasingly mythologized in written sources, Jesus mythicists (or mythicists for short) say the reverse happened: Jesus was initially a purely mythological and celestial figure who was subsequently historicized and claimed to be a human being that lived in history.<\/p>\n

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