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.



September 3, 2019

Translation of the Sacred Relics of Saint Anthimos of Chios in 1965

Translation of the Relics of St. Anthmos of Chios (Feast Day - September 3)

Our Venerable Father Anthimos of Chios reposed in peace before sunrise on February 15, 1960 at the age of 91. The next day his body was buried on the grounds of the monastery he established in Chios, the Monastery of Panagia Voithia, in a grave next to the church, near a pine tree he himself had planted.


The translation of his sacred relics took place on September 3, 1965, which was the feast of his patron saint, the Holy Martyr Anthimos of Nicomedia, as well as the feast of the Translation of the Sacred Relics of Saint Nektarios of Aegina. A large number of people gathered for the event and to venerate his sacred relics, which were brought into the Holy Sanctuary and placed to the right of the Holy Altar.



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