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.



November 12, 2017

Saints and Feasts of November 12


The Merciful departed on the twelfth without anything.

Saint John the Merciful, Archbishop of Alexandria

Saint John the Merciful Resource Page


Venerable Nilus the Ascetic

Saint Nilus the Ascetic of Mount Sinai

Saint Nilus the Ascetic as a Model for our Lives


Venerable Nilus the Athonite and Myrrhgusher

Saint Nilus the Myrrhgusher Resource Page


Saint Martin the Wonderworker, Bishop of Tours

Saint Martin the Wonderworker, Bishop of Tours

When St. Martin of Tours Preached Repentance to the Devil


Holy Prophet Ahijah

Holy Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite


Venerable Martin, Bishop of Terracina

Synaxarion of Saint Martin, Bishop of Terracina


Holy Martyrs Anthony, Zebinas, Germanos, 
Nikephoros and Manatho the Virgin

Holy Martyrs Anthony, Zebinas, Germanos, Nikephoros and Manatho the Virgin


Holy Martyr Arsakios

Holy Martyr Arsakios


Saint Leo Styppes, Patriarch of Constantinople

Saint Leo Styppes, Patriarch of Constantinople (+ 1143)


Holy New Martyr Mark Markoulis of Kleisoura

 
 
 
Holy New Martyr Savvas Samoladas of Nigdi

Holy New Martyr Savvas Samoladas of Nigdi (+ 1726)


Holy New Martyr Nicholas 
from the Parish of the Exi Marmara 
 
 
 
Holy New Martyrs and Confessors of Nasaud: 
Athanasius Todoran, Basil Dumitru, 
Gregory Manu and Basil Oichi  
 

Saint Varnava Nastic, Bishop of Hvosno
 
Saint Varnava of Hvosno Resource Page


Holy Hieromartyr Alexander Adrianov
 
Holy Hieromartyr Alexander Adrianov (+ 1918)


Commemoration of the Miracle of 
Saint Spyridon in 1718
 
 
 
 
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