Mythopoeia vs Mythicism - What's the difference?
mythopoeia | mythicism |
(theology) the scholarly opinion that the gospel is mythical
* 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,
the habitual practice of attributing everything to mythological causes; superstition, the opposite of rationalism, or of realism
* 1911' "The Californias were an inaccessible and mysterious Occident, invested in the imagination of most mankind with almost Babylonian '''mythicism ." (R. G. Badger, ''Don Sagasto's daughter )
the creative potential for the creation of mythology; the faculty of mythopoeia
* 1971' "Individual works are all potential myths, but it is their collective adoption that actualises - if such should be the case - their '' mythicism'. " (Levi-Strauss)
*1998' "the playful animal familiars of the heroine [in Disney's ''Pocahontas''] are real animals, because this is real '''mythicism , not pure imagination." (Ziauddin Sardar, ''Postmodernism and the other: the new imperialism of Western culture ,
As nouns the difference between mythopoeia and mythicism
is that mythopoeia is creation of any (l) while mythicism is (theology) the scholarly opinion that the gospel is mythical.mythicism
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