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 1, 2019

Top 50 Posts of 2018 by the Mystagogy Resource Center


1. Miracle Reported of the Resurrection of a Baby Girl in Belgium

Palestinian Muslims Beat, Torture and Threaten Greek Monks in Jerusalem

The Historical Development of Holy Week Services In Orthodoxy

Where Catholics and Orthodox Have Celebrated Easter Together Since 1588

Why A Chinese Buddhist Became an Orthodox Athonite Monk

Why Every Christian Should Wear A Cross

The Problem With a Pop-Culture Christ

The Praiseworthy Orthodox Funeral of a Mother of Ten Children

The Canonization of Elder Amphilochios Makris by the Ecumenical Patriarchate

10. Seven Men Who Tried To Paganize the Origins of Christmas But Failed

The Miracle of the Church of the Prophet Elijah in Chernobyl

The Snakes of the Panagia Have Made Their Appearance in Kefallonia (2018)

Metr. Hierotheos of Nafpaktos Weighs in on the Division Between Constantinople and Moscow

On Coexisting With People of Other Religions (St. Nikolai Velimirovich)

A First Look at the Holy Light (Holy Fire) of Jerusalem 2018

Saint George of the Foustanella Proclaimed Patron Saint of the Greek Presidential Guard

The Mobile Phone of Saint Porphyrios of Kavsokalyva

The Most Powerful Argument Against Kneeling on Sundays

Regarding the Column That Was Split By the Holy Fire in 1579

20. The Repose of Elder Nektarios Vitalis (February 8, 2018), Who Was Healed by Saint Nektarios

The Tragedy of the Greek Mothers of Ottoman Sultans

A Miraculous Event at the Church of Saint Irene Chrysovalantou in the Village of Schinas in Imathia

The Incorrupt Relic of Saint Savvas the Sanctified Placed in a New Reliquary (video and photos)

The Prophetic Role of Mount Athos in the Contemporary World

The Meaning of Christ Eating Baked Fish and Honeycomb Before His Ascension

Hagia Sophia To Remain a Museum

When St. Gabriel the Fool Visited a Synagogue, a Mosque and a Baptist Church

5 Reasons Christian Support For Jerusalem Is Not About The End Times

The Benedictine Monastery of Saint Mary on Mount Athos

30.Why Don't We Fast During the Week of the Publican and the Pharisee?

Nine Movies For Holy Week

Rare Photos and Video of the Return of the Relics of Saint Savvas the Sanctified

"I Grew Up With Saint Porphyrios"

The Repentance of Constantine the Great

The Oldest Written Account of the Celebration of the Reception of Christ at the Temple

Queen Marie of Romania, the First Woman to Enter the Great Meteoron at Meteora

Homily on Christ's Highly Revered Prophet, Forerunner and Baptist John (St. Gregory Palamas)

Why Does the Orthodox Church Honor a Wicked Idolatrous King as Among the Righteous of the Old Testament?

Saint Nicholas of Japan on Buddhism

40. The Difference Between Christianity and Communism

The Author of the Book "The Gurus, the Young Man, and Elder Paisios"

Where Saint Theophan Lived as a Recluse for 28 Years

How the Books About Saint Paisios the Athonite From Souroti Were Written

A Visit to Zak Bagans' The Haunted Museum in Las Vegas

On the Salvation of Those Who Died Before Christ (St. Anastasios of Sinai)

How a Marriage Might Have Prevented the Fall of Constantinople

Fr. George J. Nasis, the Greek-American Priest to Whom Saint Xenia of Kalamata Revealed Herself

The Truth About the Miracle of Saint Haralambos in Filiatra in 1944

The Location Where the Head of St. John the Baptist Was Found the Third Time

50. Oxyrhynchus, the Egyptan City Once Full of Saints


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