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Heilsgeschichte
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heilsgeschichte
English
Etymology
From en de Heilsgeschichte.
Noun
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en theology History seen as the work of God's salvation. (Especially, in Christianity, the history of the Old Testament, seen as a preparation for the coming of Christ.)
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.
en w: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.
en 2008 Jill Bradley You Shall Surely Not Die 1 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.
en by extension Any interpretation of history as leading to eventual well-being, as e.g. in Marxism.
Translations
history seen as the work of God's salvation
Dutch: nl heilsgeschiedenis f, nl heilshistorie f
German: de Heilsgeschichte f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nb frelseshistorie m
Nynorsk: nn frelseshistorie f
German
de:
Etymology
de :af Heil<t:salvation> Geschichte<t:history>
de Heil Geschichte salvation history.
Noun
de noun f
Heilsgeschichte
Derived terms
de heilsgeschichtlich
Further reading
de Religion