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 11, 2017

Saints and Feasts of September 11


On the eleventh Theodora took her last repose.

Venerable Theodora of Alexandria
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
Venerable Euphrosynos the Cook

Saint Euphrosynos the Cook Resource Page


Holy Martyrs Diodoros, Diomedes and Didymos

Holy Martyrs Diodoros, Diomedes and Didymos of Laodicea


Holy Martyr Ia

Holy Martyr Ia of Persia


Saint Demetrios, his wife Evanthia, 
and their son Demetrian the Martyrs 
 
 


Venerables Elias the Cave-Dweller 
 
 
 
Saint Theodora of Vasta in the Peloponnese 
 
 
 
Venerable Ioanniki of Svyatogorsk
Translation of the Relics of 
Venerable Sergius and Herman of Valaam

Saints Sergius and Herman of Valaam


Synaxis of the Kaplunovka Icon of the 
Kazan Mother of God

Synaxis of the Kaplunovka Icon of the Kazan Mother of God


 
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