Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. the second coming of Christ
Etymologies
- From Ancient Greek παρουσία ("presence"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The word parousia means appearance, presence, or arrival.”
“But that fact alone doesn't make it "obvious" that Mark 9:1 is about the imminent parousia, which is precisely the issue at hand.”
Is It Better To View Jesus' Prediction as Trite or Mistaken?
“In Matthew 24, Mark 13, and Luke 21, the word 'parousia' refers not to the second coming.”
Is It Better To View Jesus' Prediction as Trite or Mistaken?
“The Greek word 'parousia' means 'presence' as opposed to apousia or 'absence'.”
Is It Better To View Jesus' Prediction as Trite or Mistaken?
“An amendment to my last statement: Actually, I don't think that the word 'parousia' occurs in all of these accounts.”
Is It Better To View Jesus' Prediction as Trite or Mistaken?
“Russell said: "In Matthew 24, Mark 13, and Luke 21, the word 'parousia' refers not to the second coming.”
Is It Better To View Jesus' Prediction as Trite or Mistaken?
“For them, the "end of the age" and the "parousia" are separated by thousands of years from the toppling of the stones.”
“He calls on Christians to wait patiently for the parousia and to study scripture.”
“Ecce lignum crucis: this is the beginning of the parousia of the divine judge, and at the sight of the triumphal banner of redemption, whilst the Church prostrates herself low in adoration, the powers of hell flee away terror-stricken into the abyss.”
“Whatever the new year, the new decade, and even new centuries bring, two things are sure: they will see neither the end of evil short of the parousia nor its triumph, and our struggle against it, both in the world and in ourselves, will show remarkable continuity with that waged for twenty centuries by our brothers and sisters in faith.”
TEXAS FAITH: Confronting a new year and a new decade | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘parousia’.
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phrontistery - p
from phrontistery.info
pabouche, pabulous, pabulum, pacable, pace, pachydermia, pachyglossal, pachymeter, pachynsis, paciferous, pacificate, pactolian and 1766 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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Pretentious Christianese
"Religious" words that make you sound like a pretentious jerk no matter how appropriate their application. Essentially any word you can use as an excuse not to actually have a real conversation. =)
christophany, hermeneutics, exegesis, exegete, theophany, epistle, bibliology, sola scriptura, exposition, apocalyptic, apocrypha, transubstantiation and 25 more...
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bintalshamsa's list
My Favorite Words
weltschmerz, perspicacity, idée fixe, invigilator, salubrious, tchotchke, ex nihilo, invidious, malapropism, naïve, sardonic, elide and 1459 more...
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Spe Salvi
parousia, hypomone, caritas, sui generis, tacuinum sanitatis, cacoethes scribendi
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JLaughWork's Words
sesquipedalian, perspicacity, fervid, onomatopoeia, eschatology, prognostication, pedagogue, expiation, integrity, metamorphosis, supercilious, xenophilia and 229 more...
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diplopic, dolorous, farrago, surety, scuttlebutt, Arabesque, infarct, neurasthenia, lambent, expurge, univocal, simper and 395 more...
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To Learn
paratonnerre, apophenia, aposiopesis, compline, rebarbatiive, comity, averruncate, apodictic, apophasis, farouche, accismus, abligurition and 157 more...
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Hana's Vocab
ipseism, jape, raphe, mullions and tran..., Olbers' Paradox, Euclidian torus, relativity of sim..., Cerenkov radiation, tachyon, superluminal, hapax legomenon, damascene and 314 more...
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Critical and Philosophical Terms
haecceity, aleatory, ontology, teratology, aporia, elective affinities, scholia, peroration, catachresis, architectonic, deixis, diegesis and 106 more...
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noele's list
vertiginous, verdant, mellifluous, serpentine, verdigris, traject, amaranthine, luminous, phosphorescent, temerous, cerulean, shapeshifter and 531 more...
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McNamarian Vocab
William McNamara, O.C.D. presents the spirituality of "the word made flesh"
embody, enflesh, howl, amplitude, cocreators, fragmented, estranged, resounds, parousia, resonates, enfleshment, entrusted and 26 more...
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cschx's Words
endianness, oneiric, hypnerotomachia, manumit, basilisk, fata morgana, paradichlorobenzene, duodenum, antepenultimate, psychic antimagician, triboluminescence, fractoluminescence and 44 more...
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From the pulpit
Words I am no longer allowed to use in sermons, eulogies, or homilies:
syzygy, synecdoche, metonymy, eponym, breviloquence, tautology, dermatoglyphics, agglutinative, polysyndactyly, ailihphilia, orthography, phoneme and 39 more...
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elentar's Words
syzygy, prosopagnosia, autodidact, glossolalia, philomel, liverpudlian, sinople, parousia, kerygmatic, widdershins, caterpillar, jigsaw
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MarkBainter's Words
obstreperous, defenestrate, curmudgeon, libertarian, serendipity, neologism, sovereignty, classical liberal, capacitas passiva, charis, homoousious, imago dei and 25 more...
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