heilsgeschichte
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
29
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
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.)
Uncountable
noun
Any interpretation of history as leading to eventual well-being, as e.g. in Marxism.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
- "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."
Etymology
From German Heilsgeschichte.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: Heilsgeschichte