Saviour

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In Christianity, Savior refers to Jesus Christ as the Redeemer of men in the sense of Christian salvation teaching ; besides - and according to the original meaning of the word - also generally for savior, savior and helpers. It is derived from Middle High German , Old High German and Old Saxon Heilant u. e. ago, was formed from the present participle of the verb hönen , and is a loan translation of the church Latin Salvator mundi , which is common to the West Germanic languages ​​and which in turn translates the Greek soter .

The term is also used in connection with the honorary title Salvator mundi (“Savior of the world”). The corresponding dogmatics in Christian theology is called soteriology .

iconography

  • Attributed to Salvator mundi , Leonardo da Vinci

  • Coat of arms of the Wilstermarsch office in the Steinburg district, Schleswig-Holstein, Christ as Salvator mundi

In Christian iconography , the Savior is often depicted as Salvator mundi : the right hand raised to bless and in the left an imperial orb , a globe with a cross on it or a globe.

See also

Web links

Wiktionary: Savior  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
Commons : Category: Salvator mundi  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Savior, the. In: Duden online. Retrieved June 21, 2015 .
  2. ^ Friedrich Kluge :: Etymological dictionary of the German language . 24th edition. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-11-017473-1 .