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The Christ myth theory (also known as the Jesus myth theory, Jesus mythicism, mythicism,[1] or Jesus ahistoricity theory)[2] is the proposition that Christianity started with the belief in a new deity, named Jesus, who was later historicized in the Gospels, which are characterized as works of allegory or fiction.
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Christ myth theory | |
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Description | Jesus of Nazareth never existed, or if he did, he had virtually nothing to do with the founding of Christianity and the accounts in the gospels |
Early proponents | Thomas Paine (1737–1809) Charles François Dupuis (1742–1809) Constantin-François Volney (1757–1820) Richard Carlile (1790–1843) Bruno Bauer (1809–1882) Edwin Johnson (1842–1901) Dutch Radical School (1880–1950) Albert Kalthoff (1850–1906) W. B. Smith (1850–1934) J. M. Robertson (1856–1933) Thomas Whittaker (1856–1935) Arthur Drews (1865–1935) Paul-Louis Couchoud (1879–1959) Alvin Boyd Kuhn (1880–1963) |
Modern proponents | G. A. Wells, Tom Harpur, Michael Martin, Thomas L. Thompson, Thomas L. Brodie, Robert M. Price, Richard Carrier, Earl Doherty, Raphael Lataster |
Subjects | Historical Jesus, early Christianity, ancient history |
The Christ myth theory is a fringe theory, supported by few tenured or emeritus specialists in biblical criticism or cognate disciplines.[note 1] It deviates from the mainstream historical view, which holds that the gospels include legendary elements that are religious elaborations added to the accounts of a historical Jesus who did live in the 1st-century Roman province of Judea, and was baptized and crucified.[3][4]