Abstract

PROSPERI, Germán Osvaldo. Descensus Christi ad inferos. The (impossible) inclusion of the phantom in the economy of salvation. Scripta Mediaevalia [online]. 2022, vol.15, n.2, pp.13-39.  Epub Feb 27, 2023. ISSN 1851-8753.  http://dx.doi.org/10.48162/rev.35.015.

This article aims at demonstrating that ancient Hebrews and Greeks considered that the world of the dead -in its neutral sense (non-moral), i.e., as sheol or hadēs- represents a dimension beyond the divine or the human, a dimension the dogmatic Christology cannot possibly embrace. We will argue that descensus Christi ad inferos, from this perspective, constitutes the device the (proto)orthodox theology has construed, since the early days, to conjure up the imaginal and phantasmatic realm of the dead.

Keywords : Underworld; Sheol; Hades; Phantom; Christ.

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