TY - BOOK AU - Alfeyev, Archbishop Hilarion TI - Christ the conqueror of hell : : the descent into Hades from an Orthodox perspective SN - 97808814106170881410616 AV - BT470 .I425 2009 PY - 2009/// CY - Crestwood, NY : PB - St. Vladimir's Seminary Press, KW - Jesus Christ Descent into hell History of doctrines.Jesus Christ.Orthodox Eastern Church Doctrines N1 - Introduction -- The descent into Hades in Scripture and patristic tradition -- The New Testament, Apocryphal literature and early Christian poetry -- The patristic tradition -- Eastern Fathers of the second and third centuries -- Eastern Fathers of the fourth century -- Eastern Fathers of the fifth to eighth centuries -- Western church writers -- The descent into Hades in liturgical texts -- Eastern Christian liturgical poetry of the fourth through sixth centuries : from Ephrem the Syrian to Romanos the Melodist -- The hymns of Ephrem the Syrian -- The Kontakia of St. Romanos the Melodist -- Liturgical texts of the Orthodox Church -- The Oktoechos -- The Lenten triodion -- The Pentecostarion -- The theological significance of Christ's descent into Hades -- General church doctrine and personal opinion -- The descent into Hades and the theodicy -- The soteriological implications of the doctrine of the descent into Hades ER -