Editing Harrowing of Hell (section)

===Lutheranism===
[[Martin Luther]], in a sermon delivered in Torgau in 1533, stated that Christ descended into Hell.

The [[Formula of Concord]] (a Lutheran confession) states, "we believe simply that the entire person, God and human being, descended to Hell after his burial, conquered the devil, destroyed the power of Hell, and took from the devil all his power" (Solid Declaration, Art. IX).

Many attempts were made following Luther's death to systematize his theology of the descensus, whether Christ descended in victory or humiliation. For Luther, however, the defeat or "[[Humiliation of Christ|humiliation]]" of Christ is never fully separable from His victorious glorification. Luther himself, when pressed to elaborate on the question of whether Christ descended to Hell in humiliation or victory responded, "It is enough to preach the article to the laypeople as they have learned to know it in the past from the stained glass and other sources."<ref>{{Cite book |last=Skaggs |first=Rebecca |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M1zvDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA103 |title=1, 2 Peter and Jude Through the Centuries |date=June 2, 2020 |publisher=John Wiley & Sons |isbn=978-1-118-97330-1 |language=en |access-date=January 16, 2023 |archive-date=April 6, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230406025208/https://books.google.com/books?id=M1zvDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA103 |url-status=live }}</ref>