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.



April 2, 2014

A New Miracle of St. Luke the Physician in Argos


April 2, 2014

As was related to me by a young man from Argos, Christos Argyropoulos (child of the Conductor of the Municipal Philharmonic of Argos), he had received a few pieces of cotton with oil from the sacred relics of Saint Luke the Physician at his shrine in the Sacred Church of Saint Peter of Argos.

On March 30th he chanced upon his friend, a young man named Spyridon D. who owns a shop in Argos, and he gave him a bit of cotton as a blessing from the Saint.

Spyridon D. suffered many difficulties from a herniated disc and problems in the afferent nerve fibers, which caused him acute pain every time he tried to accomplish even the most basic movements of a healthy person (eg. it took him 20 minutes to get into a car due to his pain).

Not a half hour passed and his friend called him weeping with astonishment and emotion, telling him how he just had arrived home and his mother anointed him with the oil of the Saint. He immediately felt something leave from within him and all the pains that tormented him for so long disappeared!

After a short time he met his friend, the one who told us about this miracle, and in front of him he began to do various acrobatic stunts on the pavement, crying and laughing at the same time for the miracle of love shown by Saint Luke to this young man.

[I strongly thank Saint Luke, who made me worthy these past few days to become a recipient of two of his miracles out of the thousands he does, both visibly and invisibly for the glory of our Christ.

This is a good answer to all those who with perverted logic misunderstand and deny the miracles of the sacred relics of the Saints, forgetting that every miracle is simply natural law in the supernatural world.]

Fr. Dionysios Tampakis
Sacred Church of Panagia of Nafplio

Translated by John Sanidopoulos.

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