Wolfhart Pannenberg argues that revelation is God's self-revelation and also the self-disclosure of God's essence. This self-revelation is indirect. The totality of history, as the Word and action of God, is the indirect self-revelation of God. During the 1960s and 1970s, Pannenberg made a dialogue between theology and hermeneutical philosophy, in which he focused on the meaning and significance of the universal history and the history of the transmission of traditions. In this article, the author analyzes the concept of self-revelation, universal history as well as the history of the transmission of traditions, in order to disclose the relation between revelation and history and also the structure of history which is the indirect self-revelation of God in Pannenberg's theology.