Why Couldn't Dr. Craig Use a Term Besides "Mythohistory"?

QUESTIONER: Hi Dr. Craig. I was wondering if maybe you had considered using a different term besides "mythohistory" that could have been just as appropriate or accurate but wouldn't make people quite as squeamish with the word "myth." I kind of think maybe there's a little history of you doing this with maybe like a term like kalam that has a Muslim origin, which was well-received, but maybe a term like neo-Apollinarianism.

DR. CRAIG: Yeah, I kind of have a tendency to pick these bold terms, don't I? But that's a reflection of my wanting to be honest with my readers. I was never tempted to use another term because I'd never heard a good term for this. The closest that I had ever heard was as a young man I read J. I. Packer on some of these narratives and he referred to it as dramatic history, that it was like a play where it's dramatized, and I could understand what he was saying by that. It wasn't to be interpreted literalistically; it was a drama based on events that actually happened. But the problem was that's not technically a literary category, and so when I heard Bill Arnold lecture on mythohistory and Jacobsen's use of the term, it was like the light went on for me. I thought this is the term that I'm looking for, and so I co-opted it enthusiastically.