But it is also believed that it was on this day he performed in spirit the Harrowing of Hell and raised up to Paradise, having liberated those who had been held captive.

Among their topics are Augustine's certainty in speaking about Hell and his reserve in explaining Christ's descent into Hell, the descent of Christ into the underworld in early Christian liturgy, Thomas Aquinas on Christ's descent into Hell, the motif of the Harrowing of Hell in the video game "Child of Light," and the scope of redemption on finding meaning in Christ's descent into Hell.

It commemorates the day that Jesus' body lay in the tomb and the Harrowing of Hell. The head of Egypt's Coptic Orthodox Church, Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria and patriarch of the Saint Mark Episcopate and all Copts, said that it is known as the Feast of Passover, meaning passing from darkness to light.

Chapter 4 looks back to the Adam and Eve and Noah plays before introducing the Alewife figure of Chester's Harrowing of Hell in terms of work as punishment for sin, good- and poor-quality work, and the regulation of women's labour by men.

The third example is the Harrowing of Hell, which has similar flaws, beginning with an unconvincing gesture to "histrionic conventions and incarnational aesthetics that Shakespeare inherited from the mystery plays like the Harrowing" (136); "like" is resemblance, not identity.

Chapter 2 explores fault lines in understandings of Christ's own satisfaction through a reading of Doctor Faustus as 'a contorted harrowing of hell play' (40).

These analyses will serve as prelude to (re)considering "The Composition," which Hollenberg emphasizes, and "Ikon: The Harrowing of Hell," a poem from A Door in the Hive, which Hollenberg does not discuss.

She reminds readers that the Christian Creeds speak of Christ's harrowing of Hell, and suggests that similarly Maleldil the Younger might have followed Weston to Hell in order to rescue him at last" (64-65).

These particular paintings appear to show part of a Passion cycle with the risen Christ, and also a Harrowing of Hell which was the defeat of the powers of evil and the release of its victims by the descent of Christ into hell after his death.

This doctrine is also known as the "harrowing of hell," from a medieval English word used to describe the plundering and ravaging that takes place during times of war.

In this regard, the poet creates a new trajectory, involving a prudential mission, wherein the initial stage of the narrative journey can be prefigured, as Holmes reminds us, in the classical dilemma of Hercules at the Crossroads choosing between Virtus and Voluptas (63), in Aeneas journeying to the underworld, or in Christ's Harrowing of Hell.