Kyrios Christos

It is also certainly one of the most influential works in history of scholarship on the New Testament and Christian Origins.

~Larry Hurtado, Blogger

Kyrios Christos may reasonably be designated as the major work of the most important representative of the 'history of religions school' of New Testament criticism.

~Schuyler Brown, author of The Origins of Christianity: A Historical Introduction to the New Testament

The major work of Wilhelm Bousset, the most important representative of the history of religions school of New Testament scholarship, Kyrios Christos still influences current discussion because it helped to define contemporary problems and areas of study.

~America Magazine

In what is now considered a classic study on the development of the Christ cult, Bousset’s Kyrios Christos: Geschichte des Christusglaubens von den Anfangen des Christentums bis Iranaeus (1913) argued that the veneration of Jesus as a messianic object of specifically cultic devotion emerged not within the early Palestinian population but among Gentile communities, a shift that happened relatively quickly in the history of a religion. This most recent edition includes an insightful Introduction by Larry W. Hurtado, who situates the scholar and his work within Bousset’s own historical context.

~Brenda Llewellyn Ihssen, Religious Studies Review