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.



February 17, 2018

Saints and Feasts of February 17


On the seventeenth the Tiron was burned in fire.

Holy Great Martyr Theodore the Tiro

Holy Theodoroi Resource Page (Theodore the Stratelates and Theodore the Tiro)


Saint Mariamne, Sister of Saint Philip the Apostle

Saint Mariamne, Sister of Saint Philip the Apostle


Saint Auxibios, Bishop of Soli in Cyprus

Saint Auxibios, Bishop of Soli in Cyprus

Saint Auxibios and the Forty Demon Possessed Men


Venerable Theosteriktos of Symboloi

Saint Theosteriktos, Abbot of Symboloi Monastery


Finding of the Sacred Relic of the 
Holy Martyr Menas the Kallikelados
 
 
 
 
Pious Emperors Marcian and Pulcheria

Saint Pulcheria, Empress of the Romans


Venerable Theodore the Silent of the Kiev Caves

Saint Theodore the Silent of the Kiev Caves


Venerable Romanos of Trnovo

Saint Theodosius of Trnovo (+ 1363)


Holy Hieromartyr Hermogenes the Wonderworker, 
Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia

Holy Hieromartyr Hermogenes the Wonderworker, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia (+ 1612)


Holy New Martyr Theodore of Byzantium

Holy New Martyr Theodore of Byzantium (+ 1795)


Holy New Hieromartyr Theodore of Adjara

Holy New Hieromartyr Theodore of Adjara (+ 1822)


Saint Barnabas of Gethsemane

Saint Barnabas of Gethsemane (+ 1906)


Synaxis of Panagia Dakrirooussa of Prophet Elias Skete
 

 

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