Excerpt from Irenaeus (ca. 120-202 AD), "Against Heresies"

Blogged on: August 27, 2008, 6:45 pm
A key excerpt from one of St. Irenaeus's key anti-gnostic writings in which he lays out the doctrine of "recapitulation," i.e., Jesus' reversal and healing of all the accumulated sins of human history.
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Illustrations of the "Harrowing of Hell"

Blogged on: March 22, 2008, 11:57 am
Happy Good Friday, everybody. Here are a few interesting historical images of the "harrowing of Hell" tradition drawn from various Christian iconographic sources.
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