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The first part of the present book casts a new light on the Genesis vs. science issue, the second part points out that salvation history is repeating itself through cycles of four typical phases and, based on this, the third part shows that Marian apparitions are predicted by Scriptures.
The first part of this book casts a new light on the Genesis vs. science issue, the second part points out that salvation history is repeating itself through cycles of four typical phases and, based on this, the third part gives a surprising answer to the purpose of Mary's apparitions multiplying around the world.
Salvation history can be thought of as twofold: one is that God Himself personally takes action and the other is God has humans act. An example of the latter is Exodus in which God had Moses lead the Israelites from Egypt to Canaan. The skin garment that God made with slain animals for the fallen Adam is an example of the former. Adam's fall is the very starting point of God's saving acts in human history. In His saving acts, God utilized his sin as the means of salvation. However, God's plan on saving human beings began far ahead of the creation of Adam, for omniscient God already knew of Adam's fall before the world had begun. As Apostle Peter confirms, God's will to save lost sinners was planned from the very beginning and Jesus Christ was chosen before the creation of the world as our Savior. In His saving plan, Almighty God reversed all the negatives that would arise from Adam's fall into positives, triumphing over them by the cross. We need to be clothed in the robe of righteousness, the garments of salvation through Jesus Christ. The fig leaf coverings sewn by human efforts cannot cover our nakedness. In essence, the grace of salvation originates from God, not from fallible humans. Current human history has been heading towards a thorough restoration of God's image. When the full and perfect restoration of God's image is accomplished, salvation history will finally be complete. Although heavily infected by sin, we have constantly been advancing towards the perfect restoration of God's image and likeness. When Jesus Christ returns to us, our defiled image of God will be transformed into His perfect likeness. On the day when He appears, as Apostle John says, we shall be like Him. That day will be the very end of human history. On that very day, at long last, God's redemptive plan will be completed.
"Salvation history (Heilsgeschichte) rests on the belief that every man is directly bound to the great events of which the Bible speaks, which are summed up in Christ, and which unfold in the present in which we live. This reality, writes Professor Cullmann, bestowed dep peace and exuberant joy upon New Testament man and stirred him to missionary activity in the certainty that he was a fellow worker with Christ in the Church. Taking issue with Bultmann, the author feels that it is wrong to arrange Christian existence and salvation history as opposites. In Dr. Cullnann's view, today's popular concept of early Christianity in which salvation history represents a departure from existential understanding of the original kerygma rests upon a false alternative. He demonstrates that, understood properly, salvation history is rather the boldest expression of the Bible's prophetic dynamics, leaving ample room for a free decision. Dr. Cullmann outlines the main features of the debate about Christianity and history which has been carried on since World War II. He goes on to examine the way in which the biblical, salvation-historical approach originated and gives a detailed study of the occurrence of salvation history in the various strands of the New Testament. Finally, he develops the significance of salvation history for present history, the canon, liturgy, exegesis, and ethics." - Publisher
The term 'salvation history' is here used in a non-technical manner. It simply means, 'History from beginning to end. Events chronicled as they happened, all being understood, in the ultimate, to refer to God's purpose of salvation for man and His universe.' In other words, anyone reading the Scriptures from beginning to end - especially if he were to read them many times, and with increasing knowledge - would understand that history, as the Bible tells it, is simply the acts of God, and these are all with a view to fulfilling God's purposes of salvation. Much of history, of course, does not seem immediately or directly related to salvation. That is only because we take a specialised or particularistic view of salvation. As we shall see, God's intention, before the foundation of the world, was that it should climax just as He wished, and so nothing happens in a careless, loose or haphazard fashion, although, of course it often appears to be this way. The term 'Salvation History' is used by some scholars in a technical manner. They mean by this term either, (a) The history of salvation takes place in a supra-historical sphere, which cannot be researched after a secular manner. (In fact, it is accessible only to faith. It is the opposite to objective historicity.) Or, (b) God's salvation is connected with real historical events which have been witnessed, and which can be interpreted, once given the key that history relates to revelation and salvation. Faith is still needed to understand and interpret the events which stretch from before creation to the ultimate new creation, when history as we know it will have been sealed off. That history has a beginning and an end, is of course indicated Biblically, but is only acceptable to faith.
The Reformation was a seismic event in European history, & one which changed the medieval world. Much which followed in European history can be traced back to this event. In this book Peter Marshall seeks to explain the causes & consequences of religious & cultural division & difference in western Christianity.
A Catholic Bible Study of Salvation History Written and successfully piloted by St. John the Apostle Church Bible Study in Oregon, this 24-week series is based on, and follows*, the extremely popular 13-hour Our Father’s Plan film series hosted by Scott Hahn and Jeff Cavins on EWTN. Using the Revised Standard Version - Catholic Edition, this in-depth Bible study begins with Genesis, continues through various Old Testament books, into the New Testament with the Gospel of Luke and the Book of Acts. Each week’s lesson includes a specific Bible reading, a group of detailed study questions on the scripture reading, cross-referencing to The Catechism of the Catholic Church, concluding with a 25 minute film segment from the video series. An accompanying facilitator's answer guide is also available.