Buddhist-Christian Studies, January 1st, 2002
Salvation history is a Western theological strategy based on biblical ideas about how God acts in history to bring about the salvation/deliverance of God's people. It begins with the scriptural accounts of creation as the inception of God's plan. It moves to describe Israel's deliverance from slavery in Egypt and goes on to depict the guidance the Lord Yahweh provides for his people throughout their journeys and despite their trials and reverses.
Israel may be idealized in scripture as God's domain, sovereign among the nations, but in fact it was a small country sandwiched between the two s...
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