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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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What we Christians may be tempted to think of as God's slowness, the church's chronic and impatient lament at the delay of the parousia, is here transfigured into "the patience [literally, in Greek, 'the longsuffering'] of ou r Lord," which the church is urged to "regard ...
Preaching Helps: First Sunday of Advent-Transfiguration of Our Lord, series B
Beginning with a consideration of the vocabulary and imagery of the parousia (including "day of the Lord," "apocalypse," and "epiphany"), P.
PAUL AND THE PAROUSIA: AN EXEGETICAL AND THEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION
By the end of Acts the gospel has been proclaimed to the end of the earth and an early parousia may be expected, when the kingdom of Christ, which is established as a present reality in the heavenly realm, will be revealed upon the earth.
Luke: Interpreter of Paul, Critic of Matthew
Concerning the first of these, the occasional hint in Paul's letters about a transformation of the believer in the midst of the present life, in addition to the eschatological change at the Parousia, provides an opportunity to apply the frequent references to bodily transformation of the apocalyptic seer to passages like 2 Cor.
Apocalyptic, the poor, and the Gospel of Matthew
Among their topics are from John to Apollos to Paul: how the baptism of John entered the Jesus movement, from Jesus to Lord and other contributions of the early Aramaic-speaking congregation in Jerusalem, an imminent parousia and Christian mission: whether New Testament writers really expected Jesus' imminent return, why we have stopped reading the Catholic Epistles together: tracing early reception of a collection, and love one another and love the world: the love command and Jewish ethics in the Johannine community.
Christian Origins and the Establishment of the Early Jesus Movement
Anticipation of the parousia is an implicit acknowledgment of some sense of absence, otherwise there would be no particular sense of presence to anticipate.
Observations on Pentecostal Participation in Formal Ecumenical Dialogue
Do you believe in the Parousia, the Second Coming of Christ, and his universal manifestation?
The Advocate
Montessori preschool and elementary schools, I thought of producing and directing a magnificent nativity tableau specially inspired by Sofia Cavaletti's Montessori Spiritual lessons from "I Am The Good Shepherd." In her fourth and fifth grade religion book, she presented graphically the story of man's salvation: From Creation, Redemption to Parousia.
Christmas, the historical center of man's salvation
We need to seize every opportunity to show the government what good governance really is so that at the Parousia we shall be able to welcome him into a state of orderliness in every respect for which he gave himself up on Good Friday!
Christmas - Celebrating Good Governance!
A minority of Christians, however, including the Latter-day Saints, have interpreted scripture to the effect that before Christ's end-time appearance, there will be a prior parousia ("coming") accompanied by a prior "first resurrection" of the righteous that will introduce an extended period of paradisiacal peace and spiritual prosperity known as "the millennium." In Christian eschatologies, ideas about the millennium and its introduction run the gamut of the literal-figurative spectrum of interpretation.
Apocalyptic Anticipations: Mormon Millenarianism in the Early Years
Many scholars doubt that Paul wrote this book, while the consensus is that he did write 1 Thessalonians; and 2 Thessalonians absolutely contradicts Paul on one very important point: Are we already living in the Parousia?
An interlude of mercy
Consequently faith is conceived as the enactment in the present, between the past and the future, between the resurrection and the parousia.
Alistair Welchman (Ed.), Politics of Religion/Religions of Politics

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