Pat--I know where it is today and when it was originally inserted (Denziger
deals with this) --what I am trying to discover is whether and when it went
in and out of favor in medieval versions of the creed and at what point in
the medieval period it became normative. Thanks
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Subject: Re: creed
> It's assertions 4-6 of the Apostle's Creed. I was told by a Catholic
priest
> that Catholics aren't required to believe it, because it isn't in the
Bible.
> It's developed at some length in the Gospel of Nicodemus, but that's a
> non-canonical book. To tie it to the canonical books, one has to find odd
> phrases here and there, like Ephesians 4.9-10 or 1 Peter 3.19.
>
> pat sloane
> ==========================================
>
> In a message dated 10-11-1999 8:12:25 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> [log in to unmask] writes:
>
> > Has anyone out there an idea of when the phrase "descendit ad inferos (
> > inferna) " became normative for the western church Creed after the
earlier
> > councils. Was it contested in the later medieval period? My reason is
that
> > the phrase is often paired with St. Thomas in associations of apostles
and
> > the Creed and that suggests to me that there might have been some
> "doubting"
> > that had to be proven..Thanks much
> > Sharon Dale
> > Associate Professor of Art History
> > Penn State Erie, The Behrend College
> > Erie PA 16563
> > Phone (Office) 814.898.6208 (Home) 814.333.3642
> > FAX 814.898.6032
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