Jan --Thanks for tip. I have looked at Kelly. Informative but not really
what i am looking for. I will follow up on your suggestions. Many thanks,
Sharon
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From: Janice Pinder <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Saturday, October 16, 1999 8:05 AM
Subject: Re: creed
> > 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]>
> > Reply-to: [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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