Sărbătoarea Schimbării la Faţă: de la imaginile biblice la istoria sărbătorii şi teologia ei imnografică
The Feast of the Transfiguration: From Biblical Images to the History of the Feast and Its Hymnographical Theology

Summary/Abstract: The Transfiguration of the Lord is at the heart of Orthodox theology, because it represents the confirmation of man’s possibility of knowing God. Thus, during the feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord, the believer makes a spiritual exercise to be included in the state of contemplation, a state characteristic of the Orthodox cult. The present study focuses concretely on certain particularities: it starts from the New Testament cupid of the soteriological event of the Transfiguration (emphasizing here, of course, the philological issues related to this event) and focuses on the history of the holiday and Byzantine implications in the introduction of this eulogy throughout the Christian space, doubled by theological hymnography (especially of Syrian origin, but rendered in the Byzantine Greek language).

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