Having entered the Christmas season, we ask those who find the work of the Mystagogy Resource Center beneficial to them to help us continue our work with a generous financial gift as you are able. As an incentive, we are offering the following booklet.

In 1909 the German philosopher Arthur Drews wrote a book called "The Myth of Christ", which New Testament scholar Bart D. Ehrman has called "arguably the most influential mythicist book ever produced," arguing that Jesus Christ never existed and was simply a myth influenced by more ancient myths. The reason this book was so influential was because Vladimir Lenin read it and was convinced that Jesus never existed, thus justifying his actions in promoting atheism and suppressing the Orthodox Church in the Soviet Union. Moreover, the ideologues of the Third Reich would go on to implement the views of Drews to create a new "Aryan religion," viewing Jesus as an Aryan figure fighting against Jewish materialism. 

Due to the tremendous influence of this book in his time, George Florovsky viewed the arguments presented therein as very weak and easily refutable, which led him to write a refutation of this text which was published in Russian by the YMCA Press in Paris in 1929. This apologetic brochure titled "Did Christ Live? Historical Evidence of Christ" was one of the first texts of his published to promote his Neopatristic Synthesis, bringing the patristic heritage to modern historical and cultural conditions. With the revival of these views among some in our time, this text is as relevant today as it was when it was written. 

Never before published in English, it is now available for anyone who donates at least $20 to the Mystagogy Resource Center upon request (please specify in your donation that you want the book). Thank you.



June 14, 2010

Disturbing Innovations of the Post-Vatican 2 New Mass



Some information is provided here that Orthodox can learn from contemporary Catholics regarding the disturbing innovations of the Catholic Church after Vatican 2 and the drastic effects secularism and modernism can bring when they go too far and tradition is disgarded unwisely on behalf of being more "relevant" to the masses. Such interpolations, deviations and innovations into the liturgical and dogmatic life of the Catholic Church have been its greatest enemies from the time of the Great Schism [and what lead to it], and they are still going strong today.

Problems with the New Mass and Information on the Latin Mass
The New Mass: A Flavor of Protestantism
The HOLY MASS: From Holy Sacrifice to "Happy Meal"
The Novus Ordo Missae







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