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Heilsgeschichte

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  • noun theology History seen as the work of God's salvation.

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From German Heilsgeschichte.

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Examples

  • "Heilsgeschichte" from my post, I think the idea that there is a great sweep of history still stands.

    Glory to God for All Things 2008

  • From Price's send-up, a line I wish I had written: "Heilsgeschichte has turned into Bullgeschichte."

    Ken Olson's Review of The Jesus Legend James F. McGrath 2009

  • Though we shall not scant its insights, we shall find the rival theory of Heilsgeschichte, Salvation - history, or the Chain of History a better scheme by which to present the Bible's variety.

    MYTH IN BIBLICAL TIMES FRANCIS LEE UTLEY 1968

  • It is not the case that he is in church but not in nature, in Heilsgeschichte but not in ordinary experience, “here” and not “there.”

    IDEA OF GOD SINCE 1800 LANGDON GILKEY 1968

  • For men who in that kind of world had a simpler faith, the past was relevant and interesting chiefly in the form of Heilsgeschichte, the unfolding story of God's plan of salvation.

    HISTORIOGRAPHY HERBERT BUTTERFIELD 1968

  • He produced in 1143-46 a universal history which he entitled The Two Cities in token of the fact that he was combining Saint Augustine and Orosius; and in - deed there was a still wider sense in which he was attempting a synthesis of Heilsgeschichte and profane history.

    HISTORIOGRAPHY HERBERT BUTTERFIELD 1968

  • There are some stock-in-trade terms that are de rigueur (e.g. perichoresis, imago Dei, Heilsgeschichte, Bullsgeschichte), but the really outstanding student should find creative ways to deploy a wide range of foreign polysyllabic words.

    Faith and Theology 2009

  • Heilsgeschichte is a liberal German piece of theology, that actually means "not what has happened" but the story as told by Christians.

    Glory to God for All Things 2008

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