Christianity Without Christ: Researching Christian Mythicists
As a result of the poor historiographical research that has been done on mythicism (the position that there was no historical Jesus), a particular phenomenon has been somewhat overlooked, that of mythicist Christians. Mythicist Christians occupy a strange space as both being conceptualized as hereti...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2023
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Fieldwork in religion
Year: 2023, Volume: 18, Issue: 1, Pages: 37-52 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Sharples, Eliza 1803-1852
/ Brodie, Thomas L. 1940-
/ Jesus Christus
/ Historicity
/ Christianity
/ Rationalism
/ Symbol
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| IxTheo Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism HC New Testament KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history KBF British Isles NBF Christology |
| Further subjects: | B
Eliza Sharples
B Thomas Brodie B historicity of Jesus B Christianity B mythicism B Mythicism |
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| Summary: | As a result of the poor historiographical research that has been done on mythicism (the position that there was no historical Jesus), a particular phenomenon has been somewhat overlooked, that of mythicist Christians. Mythicist Christians occupy a strange space as both being conceptualized as heretics to Christians, and oddities to non-Christians, and their space within mythicist research is, as a result, entirely understudied. This article seeks to provide a starting point for such research by discussing two case examples of mythicist Christians: Eliza Sharples and Thomas L. Brodie. The article then provides a list of other figures and potential starting places for further research on historical Christian mythicists and calls for further study of this phenomenon among contemporary Christian populations. |
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| ISSN: | 1743-0623 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Fieldwork in religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1558/firn.24385 |