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.



November 30, 2023


Back in 2009, I started the Mystagogy weblog in order to post various things of my own personal interests for Orthodox Christians, not realizing that by the end of 2022 and more than 14,000 posts later, it would become an international ministry with the expanded title of the Mystagogy Resource Center consisting of, as of right now, twelve different websites.

Never did I realize I would be doing this as long as I have and produce so much material, to the point where I had to shut down this webpage now retitled Orthodox Christianity Then and Now (www.johnsanidopoulos.com), which was my primary focus, and continue what I've been doing here on my other main webpage (www.mystagogyresourcecenter.com).

For this reason, I will no longer be posting anything new on this webpage, which will now just serve as an archive.

My hope soon is to gather these more than 14,000 posts and put them in some sort of order to have them be more accessible and easier to locate.

Till then, enjoy this archive and make sure to follow all my other websites, but especially follow www.mystagogyresourcecenter.com for my daily posts. 
 
Don't forget to subscribe to my weekly (free) and daily ($60 a year) newsletter, and if you find my work beneficial in any way, please make a financial contribution to keep it going, since without your financial help all this cannot exist.
 
Thank you!
 
John Sanidopoulos
 
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