THE THEOLOGICAL AND DOXOLOGICAL REFERENCE TO THE RESURRECTION AND THE PENTECOST ACCORDING TO THE ORATIONS OF GREGORY NAZIANZEN XLI AND XLV

Authors

  • Eirini ARTEMI Post-Doc Researcher, PhD, MA in Theology and Classical Philology; Professor, Hellenic Open University; Israel Institute of Biblical Languages of the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. Email: eartemi@theol.uoa.gr. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8852-9907

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24193/subbto.2020.1.04

Keywords:

Nicholas Cabasilas, doxological reference, Gregory Nazianzen, liturgy, Pentecost

Abstract

In the 41 oration, Gregory Nazianzen analyses again the divinity of the Holy Spirit, a subject that is developed in his Fifth Theological Oration. Gregory tries to establish the point by quite a different set of arguments from those adopted in the former discourse, none of whose points are here repeated. In the other oration, 41, Gregory refers to the importance of the Resurrection for the human race. He presents Christ as the new Adam who saved the human from death and reunites the man again with God. In this paper, we will examine the teaching of Gregory Nazianzen about the divine status of the Holy Spirit and his equality to the other two persons of the Triune God through theological and biblical images. Also we will present how he connects his teaching for anthropology with the teaching of Christology. In the end, we will show how Gregory produced these orations for public festivals within the literarily ripe tradition of pagan festival rhetoric but he gives to his orations theological content.

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ARTEMI, E. . (2020). THE THEOLOGICAL AND DOXOLOGICAL REFERENCE TO THE RESURRECTION AND THE PENTECOST ACCORDING TO THE ORATIONS OF GREGORY NAZIANZEN XLI AND XLV. Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Theologia Orthodoxa, 65(1), 49 –. https://doi.org/10.24193/subbto.2020.1.04

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