Cult

:This article does not discuss "cult" in its original sense of "religious practice"; for that usage see Cult (religion). See Cult (disambiguation) for more meanings of the term "cult".

Christianity and Cults

Since at least the 1940s, the approach of orthodox or conservative or fundamentalist Christians was to apply the meaning of cult such that it included those religious groups who used (possibly exclusively) non-standard translations of the Bible, put additional revelation on a similar or higher level than the Bible or had practices deviant from those of traditional Christianity. Some examples of sources (with published dates where known) that documented this approach are:

Related Topics:
1940s - Fundamentalist - Revelation

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• Heresies and Cults, by J.Oswald Sanders, pub.1948.
• Cults and Isms, by J.Oswald Sanders, pub.1962, 1969, 1980 (Arrowsmith), ISBN 0 551 00458 4.
• Chaos of the Cults, by J.K.van Baalen.
• Heresies Exposed, by W.C.Irvine.
• Confusion of Tongues, by C.W.Ferguson.
• Isms New and Old, by Julius Bodensieck.
• Some Latter-Day Religions, by G.H.Combs.

In contrast of this, some people consider fundamentalism a cult in itself.

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