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 20, 2018

Saints and Feasts of January 20


Your life ceased on the twentieth well-bearded Euthymios.

Venerable Euthymios the Great

Saint Euthymios the Great Resource Page


Holy Martyrs Bassus, Eusebius, Eutyches and Basilide

Holy Martyrs Bassus, Eusebius, Eutyches and Basilides the Roman Senators


Holy Martyrs Inna, Pinna and Rimma

Holy Martyrs Inna, Pinna and Rimma


Blessed Peter the Tax Collector
 
 
 
Holy Martyrs Thyrsus and Agnes

Holy Martyrs Thyrsus and Agnes


Pious Emperor Leo the Great, 
also called Makellis and the Thracian

Saint Leo the Great, also called "Makellis" and "the Thracian", Emperor of the Romans (+ 474)


Holy Martyr Anna

Holy Martyr Anna


Venerable Laurence the Recluse of the Kiev Caves

Saint Laurence the Recluse of the Kiev Caves


Venerable Euthymius the Schemamonk 
of the Kiev Caves

Saint Euthymius the Schemamonk of the Kiev Caves


Saint Euthymius, Patriarch of Tаrnovo and All Bulgaria

Saint Euthymius, Patriarch of Tаrnovo (+ c. 1404)


Venerable Euthymius of Syanzhema

Saints Euthymius and Chariton, Abbots of Syanzhema Monastery in Vologda (+ 1509)


Holy New Martyr Zacharias of Old Patras

Holy New Martyr Zacharias of Patras (+ 1782)


Saint Theodore of Tomsk

Was Saint Feodor of Tomsk Really Emperor Alexander I?

Leo Tolstoy on the Mystery Behind the Identity of Saint Feodor of Tomsk


Saint Ekvtime the Confessor

Saint Ekvtime the Confessor (+ 1944)


Labels:

BECOME A PATREON OR PAYPAL SUBSCRIBER


Patreon!