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.



May 22, 2019

Four New Websites for the Mystagogy Resource Center


Dear Readers:

Christ is Risen!

As I promised last week, the four new websites are now live. They are:





You can click on each link and read an introduction. Make sure to sign up either through social media or email to be updated when new posts are posted. There is some trouble with the feed for two of them, which I will try to fix as soon as possible. Hope you enjoy the new material.

Editing of old posts and populating the new subject links above is going along well, but it will take a while before it is completed.

I wish to extend a thank you to all those who have made a contribution so far during our spring fundraiser. We are still far from our goal, so if you have still not made a contribution, please do so. Thank you in advance.

With love in the Risen Christ,

John Sanidopoulos

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