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“He Descended to the Dead”: An Evangelical Theology of Holy Saturday is unavailable, but you can change that!

“I believe he descended to the dead.” The descent of Jesus Christ to the dead has been a fundamental tenet of the Christian faith, as indicated by its inclusion in both the Apostles’ and Athanasian Creeds. Falling between remembrance of Christ’s death on Good Friday and of his resurrection on Easter Sunday, this affirmation has been a cause for Christian worship and reflection on Holy Saturday...

to be a clear NT case of a “tour of heaven and hell.”30 It also should affect how we understand 1 Peter 3:19 and its reference to “spirits in prison.”31 In other words, when the New Testament speaks about “the dead,” it has a specific background, one that affirms “the [place of the] dead” as a location containing the disembodied souls of both the righteous and unrighteous (albeit in separate compartments).32 This lends credence to the idea that when the NT writers and later the creeds speak about
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