More Christ Episode Ninety: Jonathan Pageau and Martin Shaw Part One: History, Myths, Liturgy & the Power of Stories
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The Story of Christ and the Herring of Hades
In the Christian tradition in the story of Christ, especially it's debt, I mean, it's the world of death, it's Hades. It seems to have been completely connected with the Roman or Hellenistic vision of the underworld in the gospel of Nicodemus. And then what Christ does is he basically finishes the underworld. In the, in the vision we have, it's wild. When you listen to the story of, of Saint John Chrysostom, the sermon that we hear at Pascha, he says, Hell is empty. He says Hades is empty, death is empty.
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