Descensus Christi ad inferos. La inclusión (imposible) del fantasma en la economía de la salvación

Germán Osvaldo Prósperi

doi:10.48162/rev.35.015

Authors

Germán Osvaldo Prósperi Universidad Nacional de La Plata (UNLP)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.48162/rev.35.015

Keywords:

Underworld, Sheol, Hades, Phantom, Christ

Abstract

This article aims at demonstrating that ancient Hebrews and Greeks considered that the world of the dead —in its neutral sense (non-moral), i.e., as sheol or hadēs— represents a dimension beyond the divine or the human, a dimension the dogmatic Christology cannot possibly embrace. We will argue that descensus Christi ad inferos, from this perspective, constitutes the device the (proto)orthodox theology has construed, since the early days, to conjure up the imaginal and phantasmatic realm of the dead.

Author Biography

Germán Osvaldo Prósperi, Universidad Nacional de La Plata (UNLP)

Doctor en Filosofía y Profesor Adjunto de Introducción a la Filosofía en la Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación (FaHCE) de la Universidad Nacional de La Plata (UNLP) (Argentina).

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