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.



October 1, 2017

The Best of September 2017 by the Mystagogy Resource Center (MRC)


Below is the monthly review for the month of September of the ten most popular articles from the previous month on johnsanidopoulos.com, then all the posts made on the other websites of the Mystagogy Resource Center.

JohnSanidopoulos.com

1. 8 Year Old Mute Girl Spoke for First Time Before the Icon of Panagia Gorgoepikoos 4751

2. The Column of Saint Symeon the Stylite in Aleppo Bombed

3. On the Love of Enemies: The Teaching of St. Silouan

4. Synaxarion of Saint Hermione, Daughter of the Apostle Philip

5. Saint Ninian of Whithorn, Apostle of the Southern Picts (+ 432)

6. A Prague Church That Defied Nazi Rule

7. The Tomb and Church of Saint Mamas in Cappadocia Today

8. Uncovering of the Relics of Saint John Maximovitch in 1993

9. Gospel Commentary for the Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost (St. Theophylact of Ochrid)

10. Holy New Hieromartyr Gorazd of Prague, Bishop of Moravia and Silesia (+ 1942)


HoneyandHemlock.com

1. Rapper Rick Ross Shoots "Santorini Greece" Music Video Inside Orthodox Church Without Permission, Local Metropolis Reacts to the Desecration (By far the most popular article ever posted by the Mystagogy Resource Center with over 100,000 views.)

2. Anton Chekhov: Atheist, Agnostic or Struggling Orthodox Christian?

3. How the Forgotten Byzantine Empire Rescued Turkish Cinema

4. Movie: "Anthropoid" (2016)


Bio-Orthodoxy.com

1. Genesis 3 and the Origin of the Term "Fall"

2. The Creation of the World: The Crossroads Between Theology and Science (1 of 5)

3. The Creation of the World: The Crossroads Between Theology and Science (2 of 5)

4. The Creation of the World: The Crossroads Between Theology and Science (3 of 5)

5. The Creation of the World: The Crossroads Between Theology and Science (4 of 5)

6. The Creation of the World: The Crossroads Between Theology and Science (5 of 5)


Eschatologia.com

1. The Seal of the Cross and the End of the World


Daimonologia.org

1. The Saint Who Bound A Demon and Rode It Like a Horse

2. Marilyn Manson Warns Against Black Magic

3. What Great Fish Swallowed Jonah?

4. 11 Poems About Autumn

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