The Cultic Origins of Christianity
Subtitle: The Dynamics of Religious Development (Theology)
Publisher: Michael Glazier Books
Published: May 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 261
ISBN-13: 9780814650769
Subjects: Christianity; History of religion; Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600; Early Church (To 476); Religion; Religion - Commentaries / Reference; Psychology of Religion; Christianity - History - General; Movements - Psychoanalysis; Church history; Christian Theology - General; Primitive and early church, ca
First sentence: This study seeks to formulate an understanding of patterns of motivation and psychological integration involved in the origin and evolution of religious movements.
Description: "This work, calling upon the realm of anthropology of religion, psychology, and particularly psychoanalysis, explores how the inner workings of the minds and hearts of the early Christians led to the formation of the initial Christian community.

It discusses how subjective events and psychic forces that form an individual influence the forming of a religious community and how the cultic process in the pre-Christian Palestinian background led to Christianity developing from the mission and preaching of Jesus."--BOOK JACKET.