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.



July 2, 2017

Saint John Maximovitch Resource Page

St. John Maximovitch (Feast Day - July 2)


Life and Veneration

Saint John Maximovitch, Archbishop of Shanghai and San Francisco (+ 1966)

Address Delivered by Saint John Maximovitch at his Ordination as Bishop of Shanghai (1934)

St. John Maximovitch: Modern Russian Holy Man

A Case of Exorcism Performed by Saint John Maximovitch

The Dove of Archbishop John Maximovitch 

Uncovering of the Relics of Saint John Maximovitch in 1993

St. John Maximovitch and the Woman Dying from Rabies

The Clerical Cuffs of St. John Maximovitch

The Inner Cassock of St. John Maximovitch

A Paternal Miracle of St. John Maximovitch, Protector of Orphans

A Chapel in Greece Dedicated to St. John Maximovitch

Did St. Nikolai Velimirovich Write Against Halloween?

Writings and Homilies
 
 
 

1962 Nativity Message of St. John Maximovitch 

1963 Nativity Message of St. John Maximovitch

Homily One on the Feast of the Lord’s Theophany (St. John Maximovitch)

On the Holy Water of Theophany

On The Parable Of The Prodigal Son (St. John Maximovitch)

An Instructive Lesson for Young Men from the Parable of the Prodigal Son (St. John Maximovitch)

Meatfare Sunday: Sunday of the Last Judgment

God Is Fire (A Homily of St. John Maximovitch)

Let Us Fast With a Fast That is Pleasing To the Lord (St. John Maximovitch)
 
As the Great Fast Begins (St. John Maximovitch)
 

The Cross, the Preserver of the Universe (St. John Maximovitch)

Why The Good Thief Was Pardoned

Will These Human Bones Come to Life? (A Sermon of St. John Maximovitch)

1937 Paschal Message of St. John Maximovitch
 
1938 Paschal Message of St. John Maximovitch
 
1940 Paschal Message of St. John Maximovitch
 
1947 Paschal Message of St. John Maximovitch
 
1954 Paschal Message of St. John Maximovitch
 
1955 Paschal Message of St. John Maximovitch
 
1956 Paschal Message of St. John Maximovitch
 
1957 Paschal Message of St. John Maximovitch
 
1959 Paschal Message of St. John Maximovitch
 
1961 Paschal Message of St. John Maximovitch
 
1962 Paschal Message of St. John Maximovitch
 
1963 Paschal Message of St. John Maximovitch
 
 
On The Feast of All Saints of Russia (St. John Maximovitch)
 
Homily on the Nativity of Saint John the Baptist (St. John Maximovitch) 

What Was the Moral Strength of the Holy Grand Prince Vladimir?
 
On the Holy Right-Believing Prince Alexander Nevsky (St. John Maximovitch) 
 
Homily Before the Memorial Service for the Tsar-Martyr (St. John Maximovitch) 
  
Homily on the Transfiguration of the Lord (St. John Maximovitch) 
 
On The Building Of Churches
  
On the Occasion of the Glorification of Saint John of Kronstadt (St. John Maximovitch)



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