Heilsgeschichte

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Heilsgeschichte (uncountable)

1. (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.

   • 2007 December 4, Terry Eagleton, The Guardian:

     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, volume 1, page 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.

2. (by extension) Any interpretation of history as leading to eventual well-being, as e.g. in Marxism.

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

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1. Heilsgeschichte

• heilsgeschichtlich

• “Heilsgeschichte” in Duden online
• “Heilsgeschichte” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache