"This valley goes by the quaint local name of Descensus Avernus.

Descensus Astrææ.

In the Descensus controversy, against Richard Parkes.

Many attempts were made following Luther's death to systematize his theology of the descensus, whether Christ descended in victory or humiliation.

A theological argument over the Harrowing of Hell led to several attacks on Bilson personally in what is now called the Descensus controversy.

He had a number of streets dedicated to him in and around the Clivus Argentarius, including the descensus Leonis Prothi.

Descensus Dei: teologia della croce nell'opera di Hans Urs von Balthasar.

It cannot be excluded either that the 14th century church was already consecrated to his honour, and the nearby place of dwelling (descensus) got the name Lajos after it.

This was the Descensus Astraeae (printed in the Harleian Miscellany, 1808), in which Queen Elizabeth is honoured as Astraea.

It was the facifs DESCENSUS AVERNI of Virgil.

Northeast of this crater is the site designated Planitia Descensus, the landing site of the Soviet Luna 9 probe, the first vehicle to soft-land on the Moon.

It is all very well to talk about the facilis descensus Averni; but in all kinds of climbing, as Catalani said of singing, it is far more easy to get up than to come down.

Theologically, Nicholas anticipated the profound implications of Reformed teaching on the harrowing of Hell (Sermon on Psalm 30:11), followed by Pico della Mirandola, who similarly explained the descensus in terms of Christ's agony.

Where Higgons argued that the Descensus controversy was more important than matter of clerical dress for which nonconformists were deprived, Morton argued that Catholic teaching on that matter was unclear, as based on scripture or patristics.

In the Philosophical Transactions for 1698 is a note by Sault on Curvæ Celerrimi Descensus investigatio analytica, which shows that Sault was acquainted with Isaac Newton's geometrical theory of vanishing quantities, and with the notation of fluxions.

Thomas Bilson preached in favour of a literal reading of this article before the queen and at Paul's Cross in 1597; ostensibly he was aiming at the Protestant Separatist objections to this view of the descensus or descent to hell of Christ as mentioned in the Apostles Creed.