PARALELĂ ÎNTRE CUVÂNTARE LA SFINTELE PASTI A SFÂNTULUI GRIGORIE DE NAZIANZ SI ICOANA ANASTASIS
THE COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS BETWEEN ORATION ON EASTER, BY SAINT GREGORY OF NAZIANZUS AND ANASTASIS’S ICONOGRAPHY

Summary/Abstract: The comparative analysis between Oration on Easter, by Saint Gregory of Nazianzus and Anastasis’s iconography. Saint Gregory of Nazianzus, also known as the Theologian, was regarded as being a great vicar coral and hierarch alongside Saint Basil the Great and Saint John Golden Mouth, acknowledged in the East, as he was in the West, where he was known as the Doctor of the Eastern Church. The comparative analysis that we propound focuses on one of the five orations to the Great Feasts, namely Oration on Easter, written in 385 by Saint Gregory of Nazianzus, the latter beeing the second one with the same title and the last of his sermons preached in Arianz, and also Anastasis’s iconography. The scene is based upon Saint Peter’s epistle that describes what happened after the resurrection when Jesus went and preached the Gospel to the spirits that were in prison, thus givin freedom to our parents, Adam and Eve, alongside the just ones of the Old Testament. As a source of inspiration for the scene, we can also mention the gospel of Nicodemus. As a conclusion to this parallel drawn between Saint Gregory, the God Preacher’s sermon on the Holy Easter and the icon of Anastasis also known as Christ’s descent into hell, we significantly remember the fact that the main source of inspiration for both literary theological and also iconographic creation is the Holy Bible. The allegoric, expository, inherent, philosophical, theological connotation of the Sermon is beeing put across the symbolic and transformed light of the icon of Anastasis, both of them confessing and preaching Christs’s Resurrection.

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