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.



January 14, 2018

Saints and Feasts of January 14


On the fourteenth the Abbas were slain with the sword.

Leavetaking of Holy Theophany

Orthodox Theophany Resource Page


Holy Thirty-Eight Fathers Massacred at Mount Sinai
 
  
 


Holy Thirty-Three Fathers Massacred at Raithu
  
  
 


Venerable Theodoulos, the Son of Saint Nilus of Sinai

Saint Theodoulos, the Son of Saint Nilus of Sinai


Venerable Stephen, 
Founder of Chenolakkos Monastery

Synaxarion of Saint Stephen, Founder of Chenolakkos Monastery


Holy Martyr Agnes

Holy Martyr Agnes


Venerable Sava, First Archbishop of Serbia 
and Founder of the Sacred Monastery of Hilandari

Saint Sava of Serbia Resource Page


Saint Nina, Enlightener of Georgia 
and Equal to the Apostles

Saint Nina of Georgia Resource Page


Saint Kentigern, Bishop of Strathclyde

Saint Kentigern, the First Bishop of Glasgow, Scotland (+ 612)


Holy New Hieromartyr Platon and with him 
Protopresbyters Michael and Nicholas of Estonia

Life and Martyrdom of Hieromartyr Platon, Bishop of Tallinn (+ 1919)


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