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.



September 16, 2013

The Recent Appearance of a Cross in a Tree Trunk in Krini


September 14, 2013

The story of the cross in the pine tree over the past three days has been learned throughout the village and spread from one person to another.

Last Thursday, September 12th, a resident of Krini (Northern Greece) while cutting wood was caught by surprise. While he was trying to cut the trunk of a pine tree, the machine he used to chop the wood began "turning".

The trunk would not cut, no matter what the effort! Meanwhile he tried to cut other trunks with the same machine and it worked normally. He then tried again several times, but the result was the same!

This wood, as he told Patrasevents.gr, he was not able to "rip" out. When he looked closer he saw the image above. A cross was engraved in the wood!

As much as he tried to explain the incident logically, he was not able to. In the evening at the cafe he told all his neighbors what happened, and he approached the priest of the area who replied that it is the will of the Lord for the trunk to not be cut.

The older people are mainly talking about a miracle while this particular man is keeping the wood in his house and he is guarding it like the "pupil of his eye".

Translated by John Sanidopoulos.

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