1. Definition
The term theology of history is a polemical creation of the first third of the 20th century. As a war cry, it had at least three thrusts:
1) It was directed against the claim of the philosophy of history (History, philosophy of) to enjoy interpretive priority in understanding the totality of history as something determined exclusively by human actions. By contrast the theology of history reintroduced God as subject and Lord of histor…