 These alone are major reasons to set aside Kyrios Christos as an account of the development of Christ-devotion.The extent of the problems with Bousset's characterization of early devotion to Jesus is such that one wonders how such art erudite scholar could have made such mistakes, and the answer, I suggest, has to do with the approach and assumptions that Bousset brought to his analysis.As I have stated already, Bousset sought to make the story of early Christ-devotion a simple tale of Hellenization, more specifically, the progressive paganization of a supposedly pure, primitive Christian faith.