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Second Coming
(redirected from Parousia)

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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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Paul's advocacy ended with the hope of an apostolic parousia.
As one Urian Oakes put it, describing the Puritan Commonwealth as an existentially secure cosmion that foreshadowed the plenitude of the Parousia, "the design of our founders and the frame of things laid by them [made] the interest of righteousness in the commonwealth and holiness in the Church .
So words like eschatology, parousia, and metanoia are turn-offs.
 
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