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 7, 2018

Saints and Feasts of May 7


On the seventh the seal of the cross spread out in the heavens.

Commemoration of the Sign of the Honorable Cross 
That Appeared in the Heavens
 
 
 
 
Holy Martyr Akakios the Centurion of Cappadocia
 
 

Holy Martyr Kodratos and Those With Him

Synaxarion of the Holy Martyr Kodratos and Those With Him


Holy Martyrs Rufinus and Saturninus

Synaxarion of the Holy Martyr Kodratos and Those With Him


Venerable Confessor John of Psychaita

Holy Confessor John of Psychaita (+ c. 825)


Holy Martyr Maximos

Holy Martyr Maximos (+ 251)


Venerable Tarasios the Wonderworker of Lycaonia

Saint Tarasios the Wonderworker of Lycaonia


Venerable John of Zedazeni
and his Twelve Disciples of Georgia

Saint John of Zedazeni and his Twelve Disciples of Georgia


Venerable Nilus of Sora

Saint Nilus of Sora (+ 1508)

St. Nilus of Sora: Life at the Sora River

"A Tradition For My Disciples" and "The Monastic Rule" (St. Nilus of Sora)


Venerable New Martyr Pachomios the Hagiorite

Holy New Martyr Pachomios of Usaki (+ 1730)


Saint Alexis Toth, Confessor and Defender 
of Orthodoxy in America

Saint Alexis Toth of Wilkes-Barre

Saint Alexis Feast Day In Wilkes-Barre


Translation of the Sacred Relic of the 
Venerable Euthymios the Great

Translation of the Sacred Relic of Saint Euthymios the Great in 473 A.D.

Saint Euthymios the Great Resource Page


Finding of the Sacred Relic of the 
Venerable Nilus the Myrrhgusher

Saint Nilus the Myrrhgusher Resource Page


Synaxis of the Zhirovits Icon of the Mother of God

The Zhirovits Icon of the Mother of God


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