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 25, 2017

Saints and Feasts of November 25


On the twenty-fifth the aid of orators was killed by the sword.

(Fasting Day)

Leavetaking of the Feast of the 
Entrance of the Theotokos

Entrance of the Theotokos Resource Page


Holy and Glorious Great Martyr Katherine

Saint Katherine of Alexandria Resource Page


Holy One Hundred and Fifty Rhetoricians

Fifty Philosophers and Rhetoricians Who Converted to Christianity


The Holy Empress

The Holy Empress together with the Holy Martyr Porphyrios and the Two Hundred Soldiers with Him


Holy Martyr Porphyrios the General 
and the Two Hundred Soldiers with Him

The Holy Empress together with the Holy Martyr Porphyrios and the Two Hundred Soldiers with Him


Holy Great Martyr Mercurius

Holy Great Martyr Mercurius of Caesarea in Cappadocia


Venerable Peter the Hesychast of Galatia

Saint Peter the Hesychast of Galatia


Holy Six Hundred and Seventy Martyrs

Holy Six Hundred and Seventy Martyrs


Holy Hieromartyr Moses, Presbyter of Rome
 
 
 
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