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 19, 2018

Saints and Feasts of January 19


On the nineteenth the Makarii obtained the blessed land.

Venerable Makarios of Egypt 
and Venerable Makarios of Alexandria

Saints Makarios of Egypt and Makarios of Alexandria Resource Page


Holy Martyr Euphrasia

Synaxarion of Holy Martyr Euphrasia of Nicomedia


Translation of the Relic of our Holy Father 
Gregory the Theologian to the 
Church of the Holy Apostles

History of the Relics of Saint Gregory the Theologian

Saint Gregory the Theologian Resource Page


Commemoration of the Miracle of 
Basil the Great in Nicaea

Commemoration of the Miracle of St. Basil the Great Against the Arians

The Dialogue Between Basil the Great and the Arian Prefect Modestus

The Orthodoxy of St. Basil and the Extremism of Patriarch Nikon

Saint Basil the Great Resource Page


Venerable Makarios, Bishop of Ierissos
 
Saint Makarios, Bishop of Ierissos
 
 
Venerable Maximos and Dometios the Brothers
 
 
Venerable Meletios the Confessor of Mount Galesion

Saint Meletios the Confessor of Mount Galesion (+ 1283)


Saint Mark the Eugenikos, Metropolitan of Ephesus

Saint Mark of Ephesus Resource Page


Saint Arsenios, Archbishop of Kerkyra

Saint Arsenios, Archbishop of Kerkyra (+ 953)


Venerable Anton the Stylite of Martqopi
 
 


Saint Theodore of Novgorod the Fool for Christ

Saint Theodore of Novgorod the Fool for Christ (+ 1392)


Venerable Macarius the Faster of the Kiev Caves

Saint Macarius the Faster of the Kiev Caves


Venerable Macarius the Deacon of the Kiev Caves

Saint Macarius the Deacon of the Kiev Caves


Saint Makarios Kalogeras
 
 
Uncovering of the Relics of Venerable Sava Storozhevsky

 
 
Commemoration of the Return of the Relics of 
Saint Peter the Wonderworker 
to Argos from Rome (January 19, 2008)

Synaxarion of Saint Peter the Wonderworker of Argos

Saint Peter the Wonderworker of Argos


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