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==Resurrection of Christ==
The [[Gospels]] narrate that after Christ's [[Passion]] and suffering on the [[Cross]], he was laid in a tomb which was donated by [[Joseph of Arimathea]]. After three days in the tomb, Christ had descended into Hades and broke the bonds of [[Death]] through his resurrection. The belief of Christ's Holy Resurrection is reiterated in the [[Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed]].
This Resurrection, commemorated every year on [[Pascha|Great and Holy Pascha]] and every week on the [[Lord's Day]], is the most fundamental belief of the [[Church]]. It confirms the authenticity of Christ's teachings, His Godhood and Manhood, and proves the veracity of His work in redeeming mankind from the Fall. Conquering sin and its result, death, Christ is often referred to as the "New [[Adam and Eve|Adam]]," bestowing new life to humanity. As the [[Apostle Paul]] states, "For as by a man came death, by a man came also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive."<ref>I Corinthians 15:21-22.</ref>
The Resurrection of Christ is foretold in several Books of the [[Old Testament]], as in [[Hosea|The Book of Hosea]], where the [[prophet]] says, "After two days He shall revive us: in the third day He will raise us up, and we shall live in His sight."<ref>Hosea 6:2.</ref>
===Death Before the Ressurection of Christ===
Before the ressurection, all the dead would go to Sheol (Hades) wether they were righteous or not. It was a place of darkeness and death.. After Christ was laid into the tomb, he descended into Hades and broke the bonds of death and let out all of the people therein, such as [[David|King David]] and [[Solomon]], [[John the Forerunner|John the Baptist]], [[Adam and Eve|Adam]]. and [[Adam and Eve|Eve]] among others.
==Resurrection of the dead==
==Iconography==
In [[iconography]], according to the Byzantine iconographic type, the Resurrection — as early as the eighth century — is portrayed primarily by the Descent of the Saviour into Hades. Our Lord is depicted pulling up [[Adam and Eve]] out of their sepulchers while trampling upon the gates of Hades (death). In the background stand the Old Testament patriarchs, [[prophet]]s, and other figures, including [[John the Forerunner]], who announced Jesus' advent.
:“This iconographic type represents the Lord in Hades surrounded by a radiant glory; He is trampling upon the demolished gates of Hell and bears in His left hand the Cross of the Resurrection, while with His right hand He raises from a sarcophagus Adam, who represents the human race.”<ref>Constantine D. Kalokyris. ''The Essence of Orthodox Iconography.'' Transl. Peter A. Chamberas. Brookline, MA: [[Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology (Brookline, Massachusetts)|Holy Cross School of Theology]], 1971. pp. 33.</ref>
The Holy Resurrection of Our Savior, as a mystery, was invisible and outside the laws and processes of other resurrections, since through the Resurrection and in the Resurrection we do not have a simple resuscitation of the Master’s Body and its egress from the sepulchre, as, for example, in the case of St. [[Lazarus]] (a miracle perceptible to all, and the [eventual] return of his body to corruption), but its transition, as being henceforth “one with God” [ὁμόθεος] and, in an ineffable mystery, to uncreated reality; that is, we have an ontological transformation. A lucid commentary on this Patristic viewpoint is provided by Leonid Ouspensky, who writes:
:“The unfathomable character of this event for the human mind, and the consequent impossibility of depicting it, is the reason for the absence, in traditional Orthodox iconography, [of any depiction] of the actual moment of the Resurrection.”<ref>[[Leonid Alexandrovich Ouspensky|Leonid Ouspensky]], in Leonid Ouspensky and [[Vladimir Lossky]]. ''The Meaning of Icons.'' Transl. G.E.H. Palmer and E. Kadloubovsky. Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 1982. pp.187,185.</ref>
The so-called Byzantine type then, as the authentically Orthodox dogmatic Icon of the Resurrection renders perceptible the Resurrectional [[Apolytikion]]:
Image:Hosios Loukas ANASTASIS.jpg|Anastasis, Hosios Loukas Monastery, Greece, 11th c.
File:Anastasis - San Marco, Venice.jpg|Anastasis, St. Mark's Cathedral, Venice, 12th c.
Image:Sleguvanje od Pekolot Kurbinovo.jpg|Anastasis, Kurbinovo,<br>12th c.
Image:Anastasis-chora1024.jpg|The Anastasis fresco in the parekklesion of the [[w:Chora Churchof the Holy Saviour in the Country (Istanbul,Turkey)|Chora Church]], Istanbul, 14th c.
Image:Voskresenie od Ohrid.jpg|Anastasis, Ochrid, 14th c.
==Sources==
* Chancery of the [[Holy Synod in Resistance]]. ''[http://www.synodinresistance.org/Theology_en/E3c3011EikonAnastaseosSyn07.pdf REPORT: The Holy Icon of the Resurrection, Basic Principles for Overcoming an Unfruitful Dispute].'' St. John the Theologian, September 26, 2007 (Old Style).
* Abp. [[Hilarion (Alfeyev) of Volokolamsk|Hilarion (Alfeyev)]]. ''[http://www.amazon.com/Christ-Conqueror-Hell-Orthodox-Perspective/dp/0881410616/ref=pd_sim_b5 Christ the Conqueror of Hell: The Descent into Hades from an Orthodox Perspective].'' St Vladimirs Seminary Press, 2009. 232pp. ISBN 9780881410617
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