Salvation history
Salvation history (German: Heilsgeschichte) seeks to understand the personal redemptive activity of God within human history in order to effect his eternal saving intentions.[1]
This approach to history is found in parts of the
Deutero-Isaiah and some of the Psalms. In Deutero-Isaiah, for example, Yahweh is portrayed as causing the fall of the Neo-Babylonian Empire at the hands of Cyrus the Great and the Persians, with the aim of restoring his exiled people to their land.[2]
The salvation history approach was adopted and deployed by
Parousia (or Christ's return to Earth at the end of human history). He sought to explain the Christ's mystery through the lens of the history of the Hebrew scriptures, for example, by drawing parallels and contrasts between Adam's disobedience and Christ's faithfulness on the cross
.
In the context of
See also
References
- Peter T. O'Brien(Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker, 2004), p. 297.
- Peter R. Ackroyd(London: SCM Press, 1968), pp. 130–133.
- ^ Daniels, Dwight Roger (1990). Hosea and Salvation History: The Early Traditions of Israel in the Prophecy of Hosea. Germany: W. de Gruyter.
- ^ Our Father's Plan: A Catholic Bible Study of Salvation History. Ignatius Press. 2002.
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