Descent to the Underworld

Alternate Labels

Descent into Hades
Descent into Hell
Descent into Hell (Hades)
Harrowing of Hell
Descensus Christi ad Inferos

Web Links

Wikipedia, Harrowing of Hell
Marietjie Du Toit, A Study of 1 Peter 3:18- 4:6 : An Investigation into the Historical Background of the Doctrine of Christ’s Descent into Hades. MA diss. University of Pretoria, 2007.
Laura Gibbs,Jesus’s Harrowing of Hell in the Christian Apocryphal Tradition

Key Passages

Acts2:27, 31
1 Peter 3:19-20; 4:6
2 Corinthians 2:14
Ephesians 4:8-10
Zechariah 9:11
Isaiah 24:21-22

Reading List

Key Passages

Acts2:27, 31
1 Peter 3:19-20; 4:6
2 Corinthians 2:14
Ephesians 4:8-10
Zechariah 9:11
Isaiah 24:21-22

Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

Hell (Descent into) | A Dictionary of Christ and the Gospels: Aaron–Zion
Descent into Hell | New Dictionary of Theology
Descent of Christ Into Hell | The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge

Commentaries

Matteüs 27:51b–52a | The Death of the Messiah, Volumes 1 & 2: From Gethsemane to the Grave: A Commentary on the Passion Narratives in the Four Gospels
1 Petrus 3:18–22 | Word Biblical Commentary, Volume 49: 1 Peter

Systematic Theologies

Descent into Hell | H. Bavinck, Reformed Dogmatics, Volume 3: Sin and Salvation in Christ
5. The Saviour’s Descent into Hades | L. Berkhof, Systematic Theology
f. Did Christ Descend Into Hell? | W. Grudem, Systematic Theology: An Introduction to Bible Doctrine
CHAPTER XI. OF CHRIST’S BURIAL AND DESCENT INTO HELL | B. Pictet, Christian Theology
The Descent into Hell | A Puritan Theology: Doctrine for Life

Creeds and Confessions

5. The Received Text (T.) | The Prayer Book Dictionary
10. He Descended into Hell | J.I. Packer, Growing in Christ
Descended into Hell | R.C. Sproul, Renewing Your Mind: Basic Christian Beliefs You Need to Know
Heidelberg Catechism Question 44 | The Commentary of Dr. Zacharias Ursinus on the Heidelberg Catechism

Monographs

I. He descended into Hell | The Whole Works of the Rev. John Lightfoot, Vol. 6
OF LIMBUS PATRUM; AND CHRIST’S DESCENT INTO HELL | The Whole Works of the Most Rev. James Ussher, D.D., Volume 3

Sermons

CHRIST WITH THE KEYS OF DEATH AND HELL | C.H. Spurgeon, The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit Sermons, Vol. XV

Web Links

Wikipedia, Harrowing of Hell
Marietjie Du Toit, A Study of 1 Peter 3:18- 4:6 : An Investigation into the Historical Background of the Doctrine of Christ’s Descent into Hades. MA diss. University of Pretoria, 2007.
Laura Gibbs,Jesus’s Harrowing of Hell in the Christian Apocryphal Tradition

Arts

Harrowing of Hell | Wikimedia
Joakim Skovgaard, Christ in the Realm of the Dead

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