heilsgeschichte
heilsgeschichte is the alternative form of Heilsgeschichte.
Noun capitalized: Heilsgeschichte
Heilsgeschichte (uncountable)
- 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.)
- 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.1959, Guthrie/Hall, translating Oscar Cullman, The Christology of the New Testament, p. 306
- 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.2007 December 4, Terry Eagleton, The Guardian
- Any interpretation of history as leading to eventual well-being, as e.g. in Marxism.
Origin of heilsgeschichte
From German Heilsgeschichte.
Questions about heilsgeschichte
- What does heilsgeschichte mean?
- Heilsgeschichte means 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.).
- What is heilsgeschichte the alternative form of?
- Heilsgeschichte is the alternative form of Heilsgeschichte.
- What part of speech is heilsgeschichte?
- Heilsgeschichte is a noun.
Words near heilsgeschichte in the dictionary
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