Open AccessNedfarten til dødsriget
Author(s) -
Jakob Balling
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
grundtvig studier
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2246-6282
pISSN - 0107-4164
DOI - 10.7146/grs.v52i1.16397
Subject(s) - literal and figurative language , gospel , sketch , faith , motif (music) , the arts , literature , poetry , art , philosophy , linguistics , theology , visual arts , aesthetics , computer science , algorithm
The Descent into HellBy Jakob BallingThis article - originally a paper, read at the Grundtvig Academy's conference on Grundtvig and the Figurative Arts in November 2000 - presents an interpretative sketch of the uses made of the descensus motif from the beginning, via the ‘Gospel of Nicodemus’, ancient and medieval liturgical and liturgico-dramatic texts, and Luther, to Grundtvig. Throughout, the main emphasis of the discussion is laid on the way in which the texts express and expound the notions of coherence between creation and salvation and of past history being actualized or re-enacted in the present. - By way of conclusion, the story is, consequently, maintained to communicate a vast complex of central tenets of the Christian faith.