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	Heaven and Hell (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
		The primary philosophical criticisms of the doctrine of hell have focused on whether it is fair or just for someone to be sent to hell, and these criticisms reinforce the centrality of the punishment model in discussions of the doctrine of hell.
		The minor modification arises from the doctrine known as the harrowing of hell, according to which between the time of Jesus' death and resurrection, he preached to the inhabitants of hell, some of whom accepted his message and thereby went to heaven.
		Hell may be a place where some people are punished, but the fundamental purpose of hell is not to punish people, but to honor their choices.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/heaven-hell (5216 words)

	Limbo - Encyclopedia - Fansub TV
		Medieval theologians described the underworld ("hell", "hades", "infernum") as divided into four distinct underworlds: hell of the damned (which some call gehenna), purgatory, limbo of the fathers, and limbo of infants.
		The end of that state is set either at the resurrection of the dead, the most common interpretation in the East, or at the Harrowing of Hell, the most common interpretation in the West, but adopted also by some in the East.
		If heaven is a state of supernatural happiness and union with God, and hell is understood as a state of torture and separation from God then, in this view, the Limbo of Infants, although technically part of hell (the outermost part, "limbo" meaning "outer edge" or "hem") is seen as a sort of intermediate state.
	www.fansub.tv /encyclopedia.php?title=Limbo&redirect=no (3188 words)

	Online Etymology Dictionary
		Expression Hell in a handbasket is c.1941, perhaps a revision of earlier heaven in a handbasket (c.1913), with a sense of "easy passage" to whichever destination.
		Expression hell of a _____ is attested from 1776.
		Hell or high water is apparently a variation of between the devil and the deep blue sea.
	www.etymonline.com /index.php?search=hell&searchmode=none (1836 words)

	Dialectic and Spectacle in the Harrowing of Hell
		Dialectic and Spectacle in the Harrowing of Hell
		Medieval Literary Drama Dialectic and Spectacle in the Harrowing of Hell Roland Barthes's essay on "The World of Wrestling" draws analogically on the ancient theatre to contextualize wrestling as a cultural myth where the grandiloquence of the ancient is preserved and the spectacle of excess is displayed.
		Rosemary Woolf's description of the Limbo of Fathers demonstrates the conflation of crucifixion, harrowing, and resurrection in a single spatial moment: "the Limbo of Fathers is depicted as a small, battlemented building: its doors with their heavy locks, have already crashed to the ground at the touch of Christ's Resurrection Cross" (emphasis mine).
	members.tripod.com /essayz/English/harrow.html (3044 words)

	Talk:Harrowing of Hell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The phrase "he descended into Hell" was interpolated into the so-called "Apostles' Creed, the old Roman creed mentioned by Tertullian.
		The Harrowing of Hell is a later development, unrelated to anything in Luke whatsoever, but with rich developments in apocrypha.
		The Harrowing of Hell had not taken place by that time, and the Paradiso concludes with the vision of Christ and the Heavenly Host.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Talk:Harrowing_of_Hell (887 words)

	medieval imaginations: mystery plays
		Christ's descent into hell and his release of souls from captivity in limbo, between his death and resurrection, is not narrated in the Bible but dates from earliest Christian tradition.
		The Harrowing of Hell appears in the apocryphal 'Gospel of Nicodemus' (James 1924), and thence passes into tradition, a familiar subject in visual culture.
		In the 'Biblia Pauperum', the Old Testament prefigurations of the Harrowing are two instances of victory by the seemingly weak over the strong: David and Goliath, and Samson slaying the lion (ID 426).
	www.english.cam.ac.uk /mi-sampler/hellmp.htm (164 words)

	A NOTE ON HELL
		The fires of hell were, of course, burning madly during that most psychopathic of all periods of Christianity: the burning of tens of thousands of "witches", "heretics" and Jews across that Western Europe which today preaches tolerance and "democracy".
		The mythology of the harrowing of hell is Christianity's grappling with the question of where Christ went when he died.
		Hell, of course, features in every depiction of the Last Judgement, some of which, as at Conques, are very graphic indeed.
	www.beyond-the-pale.org.uk /hell.htm (2616 words)

	Rotary Harrow (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Harrowing is often carried out on fields to follow the rough finish left by ploughing operations.
		The purpose of this harrowing is generally to break up clods and lumps of soil and to provide a finer finish, a tilth, that is suitable for seeding and planting operations.
		Harrowing may also be used in farming to remove weeds and to cover seed after sowing.
	www.blownspeakers.com /pages3/76/rotary-harrow.html (1282 words)

	Eileen Gardiner, editor; Hell-On-Line: Hindu Hell
		The various names of the hells indicate circumstances and conditions: for instance, Ghatiyantra is a hell associated by its name with a water wheel and also with an intestinal disease, characterized by diarrhea and ulceration of the mucous membrane of the digestive tract.
		The harrowing of hell is a motif that is found in Christian literature of the otherworld, most notably Christ’s harrowing of hell from the New Testament, particularly 1 Peter, and Mary’s harrowing of hell from the Apocalypse of Mary.
		None of the hell texts from the Vedic, epic or Puranic periods specifically discusses hell in the context of the doctrine of samsara, or transmigration of the soul.
	www.hell-on-line.org /AboutHIN.html (941 words)

	GRI - Rinri II.4.2. Graduating from the Harrowing of Hell: Special Edition
		The Harrowing of Hell was then presented in the context of the Telektonon Cube of the Law Gate of Time, the four years 2000-2004 corresponding to the four stones that mark the top of that Gate in the 20 Tablets.
		While studying the wavespell flow of the Harrowing of Hell, it is clear that the inverse symmetry pattern of the journey from positions 4 to 7 (4:7::7::13) in the context of the entire Wavespell flow pattern mapped out on the Telektonon flows as a whole is thoroughly remarkable and powerfully symmetrical.
		This practice, to be concluded at the end of the Harrowing of Hell, is especially critical to the manifestation of the AC Manitou.
	www.lawoftime.org /GRI/rinri/cultivation.html (8684 words)

	Christ's three days in Hell by Alvin Boyd Kuhn
		Hell has been loaded with opprobrium and infamy only because we have been misled to believe it is some other place far worse than this world.
		So his descending into hell after his death on the cross immediately gave rise in all naïve minds to the wonder - how it was that he, the perfect God, had to descend to a world still lower than this, into which the common theological assumption consigned only the sinner and the evildoer.
		Others limit the benison of release from hell to those who for a sufficient measure of repentance and turning from heathen error, of sincere yearning for the light, of inner purgation of sin and true piety, may have earned the right to receive the boon of the Savior’s liberating power.
	www.theosophical.ca /christ3days.htm (16396 words)

	Harrowing Of Hell - LoveToKnow 1911
		HARROWING OF HELL, an English poem in dialogue, dating from the end of the 13th century.
		It is written in the East Midland dialect, and is generally cited as the earliest dramatic work of any kind preserved in the language, though it was in reality probably intended for recitation rather than performance.
		2253 (Berlin, 1878); and E. Mall, The Harrowing of Hell (Breslau, 1871).
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Harrowing_Of_Hell (224 words)

	Harrowing of Hell (Site not responding. Last check: )
		This is the Old English and Middle English term for the triumphant descent of Christ into hell (or Hades) between the time of His Crucifixion and His Resurrection, when, according to Christian belief, He brought salvation to the souls held captive there since the beginning of the world.
		Art and literature all through Europe had from early times embodied in many forms the Descent into Hell, and specimens plays upon this theme in various European literatures still exist, but it is in Middle English dramatic literature that we find the fullest and most dramatic development of the subject.
		The earliest specimen extant of the English religious drama is upon the Harrowing of Hell, and the four great cycles of English mystery plays each devote to it a separate scene.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/view_encyclopedia.php?file=h/harrowing_of_hell.htm (384 words)

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		This is the Old English and Middle English term for the triumphant descent of Christ into hell (or Hades) between the time of His Crucifixion and His Resurrection, when, according to Christian belief, He brought salvation to the souls held captive there since the beginning of the world.
		Art and literature all through Europe had from early times embodied in many forms the Descent into Hell, and specimens plays upon this theme in various European literatures still exist, but it is in Middle English dramatic literature that we find the fullest and most dramatic development of the subject.
		The earliest specimen extant of the English religious drama is upon the Harrowing of Hell, and the four great cycles of English mystery plays each devote to it a separate scene.
	www.catholic.org /printer_friendly.php?id=5546§ion=Encyclopedia (327 words)

	Harrowing Of Hell
		Since, according to Dante's reckoning, Christ's earthly life spanned thirty-four years, the harrowing can be dated to 34 C.E. Only suggested in the Bible, the story of Christ's post-mortem journey to hell appears in apocrypha--books related to but not included in the Bible--such as the Gospel of Nicodemus.
		So prominent was this story in the popular and theological imaginations that it was proclaimed as church dogma in 1215 and 1274.
		Dante's version of the harrowing, as we see from repeated allusions to the event during the protagonist's journey, emphasizes the power--in both physical and psychological terms--of Christ's raid on hell.
	danteworlds.laits.utexas.edu /textpopup/inf0401.html (145 words)

	Bloomsbury.com - Research centre
		The Church Fathers discriminated between Hell proper, where the irredeemably damned are punished for all eternity, and Limbo, in which the virtuous souls from the pre-Christian era awaited their release by Christ in his descent.
		The Harrowing of Hell achieved an especial importance in the Greek Church as an example of the defeat of Satan's plot against humanity and, though the Greek term 'Anastasis' refers to both the Harrowing of Hell and the Resurrection, it is more often the former that is depicted under this title (e.g.
		Also present are Dismas, the penitent thief (with his cross, scarred legs and a length of rope to indicate that he was not nailed to his cross) and John the Baptist (dressed in animal skins and carrying a cross standard).
	www.bloomsbury.com /ARC/detail.asp?entryid=99309&bid=1 (286 words)

	Anti Essays : Free Essays on The Harrowing of Hell - Dialectic and Spectacle Essay
		The Harrowing of Hell - Dialectic and Spectacle
		Roland Barthes's essay on "The World of Wrestling" draws analogically on the ancient theatre to contextualize wrestling as a cultural myth where the grandiloquence of the ancient is preserved and the spectacle of excess is displayed.
		We may establish part of the Harrowing of Hell's historical significance by relating the audience's participation, which is an active-passivity similar to the effects of a lack of drama under Calvinist dogma, to the congregation's delimited and litanized response to the office of readings for Holy Saturday:
	www.antiessays.com /essay.php?eid=537 (3221 words)

	The Journey Thus Far
		During the three days between his death and resurrection, Christ descended into Hades to free the souls of all those imprisoned there, since they'd perished before their sins could be forgiven.
		As I was drawing, this image of 'the Harrowing of Hell' combined with the image I'd dreamt in Malta of the Buddha's (and St. Anthony's) Temptation.
		Suddenly, in The Harrowing of Hell, one of the demonic shadows took on a recognizable form.
	art.myth.dream.tripod.com /webtext/jourfar/jourfar3.html (2475 words)

	guerillaHost: easter: the harrowing of hell
		Jesus proved his love for us by descending into hell – a theological bit of pizzazz rarely talked about, though ultimately very significant.
		His brother came to the gates of hell to beg for his release, claiming that there had been a mistake.
		Then the man’s mother claim to the gates of hell, aching for her son.
	guerillahost.blogspot.com /2008/03/easter-harrowing-of-hell.html (1022 words)

	MONSTER BRAINS
		"The Harrowing of Hell is a doctrine in Christian theology referenced in the Apostles' Creed and the Athanasian Creed (Quicumque vult), which states that Jesus "descended into Hell".
		Harrow is a by-form of harry, a military term meaning to "make predatory raids or incursions".
		"Harrowing of Hell, and Christ, Thomas and Mary Magdalene, in The Winchester Psalter" Ink and pigments on vellum, 12th century.
	monsterbrains.blogspot.com /2008/01/harrowing-of-hell-harrowing-of-hell-is.html (214 words)

	Harrowing Of Hell
		The medieval fable of Christ's vanquishing of Hell during the time between his crucifixion and resurrection.
		Presumably the story is somewhat included in the canon of the Church, as it is found in the Catholic Encyclopedia.
		Article "Harrowing Of Hell" created on 21 March 2000; last modified on 25 March 2000 (Revision 2).
	www.pantheon.org /articles/h/harrowing_of_hell.html (109 words)

	Paul Dean, The Harrowing of Malvolio: The Theological Background of Twelfth Night, Act 4, Scene 2
		4 In the Latin text the story of the visitation of Jesus to the infernal regions, his defeat of Satan, Death and Hell, and his liberation of the souls of patriarchs and prophets, is narrated by the two sons of Simeon, Karinus and Leucius, who have been raised from the dead for this purpose.
		The Harrowing was selected early for dramatic representation; the earliest surviving play on the subject—which is also the earliest known liturgical play—dates from the eighth century,8 and it is included in all the extant mystery cycles.
		The tradition of the Harrowing is turned upside-down, not to deny that its liberation is possible, but perhaps to suggest that those who make themselves outcasts set in motion their own exclusion from paradisal harmony.
	www.uni-tuebingen.de /connotations/dean72.htm (4042 words)

	LM
		Christ's descent to hell or the place of the dead after his death on the cross is mentioned or suggested by several NT sources, including Mt 12:40; Acts 2:24, 31; Rom 10:7; Eph 4:9; Col 1:18; and possibly 1 Pt 3:18-19, 4:6.
		The traditional language version of the Apostles' Creed affirms that Jesus "descended into hell," and the contemporary version states that Jesus "descended to the dead" (BCP, pp.
		Christ's victory was expressed in terms of words from Ps 24, "Lift up your heads, O gates; lift them high, O everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in." This language dramatizes the power of Christ's resurrection and shows Christ's ultimate victory over death.
	www.episcopalchurch.org /19625_14476_ENG_HTM.htm (233 words)

	MattSite\mk041198
		In recent years "descended into Hell" has been changed to "descended to the dead." Not that truth changes, but that words do.
		Hell once meant Sheol, Hades, the regions of the dead.
		When that light is heeded, when people do the best they can with what they have, their life has integrity that is completed by Christ's coming to them to rescue them from the powers of darkness fruit of the evil one.
	www.bardstown.com /~brchrys/homilies/mk041198.htm (627 words)

	blicking
		Beowulf's liminality, crossing a boundary to an otherworld, in his descent to Grendel's Mother's mere resembles the Christian belief of the Harrowing of Hell when Christ descended to hell prior to his ascending to Heaven.
		Along the same lines as a Hell for the sinners of earth is the theory that Beowulf was a Christ figure descending into Hell only to triumph and escape the pit of the damned.
		This act of fantasy also resembles Christ's Harrowing of Hell when he crosses the threshold of death and travels into Hell before finally ascending into Heaven.
	www.unlv.edu /Faculty/jmstitt/Eng477/papers1/blicking.html (1735 words)

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