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Second Coming
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Second Coming (less commonly), Second Advent
the prophesied return of Christ to earth at the Last Judgment


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1 Thessalonians stresses Jesus' resurrection as the assurance that his parousia will gather the faithful.
1 and 2 Thessalonians: A Socio-Rhetorical Commentary by Krentz, Edgar / Currents in Theology and Mission
Tolkien seems to have often thought about the end times, (18) and he would have had access to the Enoch and Elijah legends about the Parousia in many forms, from the Latin of the Glossa and of Adso's Libellus de Antichristo, to the Old English of a translation of Adso and several of Aelfric's sermons, to Cornish in the magnum opus of Cornwall, the Ordinalia, where it appears in the Resurrection Play.
"A far green country": Tolkien, paradise, and the end of all things ... by Kelly, A. Keith; Livingston, Michael / Mythlore
This is what we refer to as his second coming or Parousia (presence).
The Coming of the Son of Man by William Bell / Philosophy and religion community
 
 
 
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