Heilsgeschichte

heilsgeschichte English Etymology From en de Heilsgeschichte. Noun - 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