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.



June 13, 2018

Saints and Feasts of June 13


For Your sake Aquilina's head was severed on the thirteenth.

Holy Martyr Aquilina
 
 
 
 
Venerable Anna of Larissa and her son John

Saint Anna of Larissa and Her Son John


Venerable James, Who Was Beguiled to 
Worship the Devil

Synaxarion of the Venerable James, Who Was Beguiled to Worship the Devil

Saint James, Who Was Beguiled to Worship the Devil


Saint Antipater, Bishop of Bostra

Saint Antipater, Bishop of Bostra


Saint Eulogios, Patriarch of Antioch

Saint Eulogios, Patriarch of Antioch


Holy Myriad (or Ten Thousand) Martyrs

Holy Myriad (or Ten Thousand) Martyrs


Holy Martyr Diodoros of Emesus

Holy Martyr Diodoros of Emesus


Saint Triphyllios, Bishop of Leukosia

Saint Triphyllios, Bishop of Leukosia and Disciple of Saint Spyridon


Venerable Andronicus of Moscow,
Disciple of Saint Sergius of Radonezh

Saint Andronicus, Disciple of Saint Sergius of Radonezh (+ 1395)


Venerable Philotheos of Sklataina

Saint Philotheos of Sklataina, Second Founder of the Monastery of Saint Stephen at Meteora (+ 1550)


Holy New Hieromartyr Anthimos, 
Metropolitan of Wallachia

Holy New Hieromartyr Anthimos, Metropolitan of Wallachia (+ 1716)

Movie: "Antimoz Iverieli" (2001)


Venerable John the Presbyter, 
the New Chrysostom and Merciful

Saint John Triantaphyllides, the New Chrysostom and Merciful (+ 1903)


Finding of the Sacred Relics of the 
Hieromartyr Nicholas in Karyes of Lesvos

Finding of the Sacred Relics of the Newly-Revealed Hieromartyr Nicholas in Karyes of Lesvos in 1960


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