TY - GEN AU - MARTINEZ, German TI - Cult and culture: The structure of the evolution of worship PY - 1990/// CY - Minnesota PB - St. Benedict KW - Cults and Religions KW - Culture and Religion N2 - Worship is the best interpreter of the Christian kerygma through the mediation of its symbolic structural exegesis which speaks to people standing within a historical tradition-bound period of ideas, challenges and values. The following historical paradigms can enlighten present-day questions: from the Judeo-Christian to the Hellenistic; from the Hellenistic to the Greco-Roman and Byzantine; from the Greco-Roman to the Medieval and modern Roman Catholic; from the Medieval to the modern Evangelical-Protestant; and the Second Vatican Council and beyond ER -