The Harrowing of Hell, depicted in the Petites Heures de Jean de Berry , 14th-century illuminated manuscript commissioned by John, Duke of Berry. 250px|Christ leads Adam by the hand, depicted in the Vaux Passional, c. 1504 Before his resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ grants salvation to souls by the Harrowing of Hell. Fresco, by Fra Angelico, c. 1430s In Christian theology, the Harrowing of Hell ( Latin: Descensus Christi ad Inferos , "the descent of Christ into Hell") is the descent of Christ into Hell (or Hades), a period of time between his Crucifixion and his Resurrection . During this period, Christ triumphantly granted salvation to the righteous who had previously died.Warren, Kate Mary. "Harrowing of Hell." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 7. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1910.3 Mar. 2013 Notice that the Latin word is inferos NOT infernos. Inferos meaning below, infernos meaning flames of URL Christ' s descent into the world of the dead is referred to in the Apostles' Creed and the Athanasian Creed ( Quicumque vult ), which state that Jesus Christ "descended into the underworld" ( descendit ad inferos ), although neither mention that he liberated the dead. His descent to the underworld is alluded to in the New Testament in , which states that the "good tidings were proclaimed to the dead". The Catholic Catechism interprets , which states that "[Christ] descended into the lower parts of the earth", as also supporting this URL Section 631 These passages in the Christian Bible have given rise to differing interpretations.D. Bruce Lockerbie, The Apostle's Creed: Do You Really Believe It (Victor Books, Wheaton, IL) 1977:53–54, on-line text . The Harrowing of Hell is commemorated in the liturgical calendar on Holy Saturday. According to The Catholic Encyclopedia, the story first appears clearly in the Gospel of Nicodemus in the section called the Acts of Pilate, which also appears separately at earlier dates within the Acts of Peter and Paul.New Testament Apocrypha, Vol. 1 by Wilhelm Schneemelcher and R. Mcl. Wilson (Dec 1, 1990) pages 501-502 The descent into Hell had been related in Old English poems connected with the names of Cædmon (e.g. Christ and Satan) and Cynewulf. It is subsequently repeated in Ælfric of Eynsham's homilies c. 1000 AD , which is the first known inclusion of the word "harrowing". Middle English dramatic literature contains the fullest and most dramatic development of the subject. As an image in Christian art, the harrowing is also known as the Anastasis (a Greek word for "resurrection"), considered a creation of Byzantine culture and first appearing in the West in the early 8th century.Leslie Ross, entry on "Anastasis", Medieval Art: A Topical Dictionary (Greenwood, 1996), pp. 10–11 online.
The Harrowing of Hell, depicted in the , 14th-century illuminated manuscript commissioned by John, Duke of Berry. 250px|Christ leads Adam by the hand, depicted in the Vaux Passional, Before his resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ grants salvation to souls by the Harrowing of Hell. Fresco, by Fra Angelico, In Christian theology, the Harrowing of Hell ( , "the descent of Christ into Hell") is the descent of Jesus into Hell (or Hades), a period of time between the Crucifixion of Jesus and his resurrection . During this period, Jesus granted salvation to the righteous who had previously died.Warren, Kate Mary. "Harrowing of Hell." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 7. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1910.3 Mar. 2013 Notice that the Latin word is inferos NOT infernos. Inferos meaning below, infernos meaning flames of URL Jesus' descent into the world of the dead is referred to in the Apostles' Creed and the Athanasian Creed ( ), which state that Jesus "descended into the underworld" ( ), although neither mention that he liberated the dead. His descent to the underworld is alluded to in the New Testament in , which states that the "good tidings were proclaimed to the dead". The Catholic Catechism interprets , which states that "[Christ] descended into the lower parts of the earth", as also supporting this URL Section 631 These passages in the Bible have given rise to differing interpretations.D. Bruce Lockerbie, The Apostle's Creed: Do You Really Believe It (Victor Books, Wheaton, IL) 1977:53–54, on-line text . The Harrowing of Hell is commemorated in the liturgical calendar on Holy Saturday. According to The Catholic Encyclopedia, the story first appears clearly in the Gospel of Nicodemus in the section called the Acts of Pilate, which also appears separately at earlier dates within the Acts of Peter and Paul.New Testament Apocrypha, Vol. 1 by Wilhelm Schneemelcher and R. Mcl. Wilson (Dec 1, 1990) pages 501-502 The descent into Hell had been related in Old English poems connected with the names of Cædmon (e.g. Christ and Satan) and Cynewulf. It is subsequently repeated in Ælfric of Eynsham's homilies , which is the first known inclusion of the word "harrowing". Middle English dramatic literature contains the fullest and most dramatic development of the subject. As an image in Christian art, the harrowing is also known as the (Greek for "resurrection"), considered a creation of Byzantine culture and first appearing in the West in the early 8th century.Leslie Ross, entry on "Anastasis", Medieval Art: A Topical Dictionary (Greenwood, 1996), pp. 10–11 online.
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