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 21, 2018

Saints and Feasts of January 21


On the twenty-first it was the lot of Maximus to be buried.

Venerable Maximus the Confessor

Saint Maximus the Confessor Resource Page


Holy Martyr Neophytos


Holy Martyr Neophytos of Nicaea

 
 
Venerable Zosimos, Bishop of Syracuse 
 
 
Holy Martyrs Eugenios, Valerian, Candidus 
and Aquila of Trebizond

Holy Martyrs Eugenios, Valerian, Candidus and Aquila of Trebizond

Saint Eugenios of Trebizond: His Life and Veneration


Holy Martyr Agnes
 
 
 
 


Holy Four Martyrs of Tyre

Holy Four Martyrs of Tyre


Venerable Neophytos the Prosmonarios of Vatopaidi

Saint Neophytos the Prosmonarios of Vatopaidi


Saint Maximos the Greek

Saint Maximos the Greek Resource Page


Holy Martyrs Fructuosis, Augurius 
and Eulogius of Tarragona

Holy Martyrs Fructuosus, Augurius and Eulogius of Tarragona, Spain

Sermon on the Birthday of the Martyrs Fructuosus the Bishop with Augurius and Eulogius the Deacon (St. Augustine of Hippo)


Synaxis of Hagia Eirene by the Sea

Synaxis of Hagia Eirene by the Sea at the Perama


Synaxis of All the Martyred Saints 
from Protomartyr Stephen Up to the Present

Synaxis of All the Martyred Saints from Protomartyr Stephen Up to the Present


Synaxis of Panagia Paramythea

Panagia Paramythea Without the Silver Covering

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