> Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 23:56:00 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Grover Zinn <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: creed
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Cc: Grover Zinn <[log in to unmask]>
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> The suggestion to take a look at JND Kelly, _Early Christian Creeds_ is
> right on target (suggested as a possibility in an earlier post). Kelly
> takes up the Descent into Hell in chapter 12. Useful exploration of early
> Christian literature on this point (and obviously "pre" Le Goff).
>
> Grover Zinn
> Oberlin College
>
Excuse me jumping in arbitrarily at this point in the thread. It
might be useful to look at less "official" manifestations of the
Descent into Hell than actual creeds. Old French vernacular poems
(chansons de geste and saints' lives, mostly) sometimes contain
creed-like prayers in which the Descent (and other "apocryphal"
elements, like Longinus, are present). They were surveyed by Sister
Marie Pierre KOCH, in _An analysis of the long prayers in Old French
literature with special reference to Biblical creed-narrative
prayers_, Washington, Catholic University of America Press, 1940.
Janice Pinder
Research Associate
School of Historical and Gender Studies
Monash University
Clayton 3168
Australia
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