Heilsgeschichte

See also heilsgeschichte

English

Etymology

From German Heilsgeschichte.

Noun

Heilsgeschichte (uncountable)

1. (theology) History seen as the work of God's salvation.
   • 1959, Guthrie/Hall, translating Oscar Cullman, The Christology of the New Testament, p. 306:

     Without a divine Heilsgeschichte it would not make sense to speak of Jesus' ‘deity’. He would then simply be one of the heroes of history—nothing more.

   • 2007, Terry Eagleton, The Guardian, 4 Dec 2007:

     He was not a Leninist because he would have had no conception of historical self-determination. The only kind of history that mattered was Heilsgeschichte, or salvation history.

   • 2008, Jill Bradley, You Shall Surely Not Die, vol. 1, p. 71:

     The much greater iconographic programmes of the other three Bibles mean that a sort of pictorial Heilsgeschichte can be given spread throughout the work: in the Bamberg it has to be compressed.

Translations

history seen as the work of God's salvation

• German: Heilsgeschichte (de) f

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German

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Etymology

Heil (“salvation”) +‎ Geschichte (“history”)

Noun

Heilsgeschichte f

1. Heilsgeschichte

Derived terms

• heilsgeschichtlich