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Parousia Theol.|pəˈruːzɪə|
Also parousia.
[ad. Gr. παρουσία presence, in N.T. (Matth. xxiv. 27, etc.) used as below.]
The Second Coming or Advent of Christ. Also transf.
1875Expositor May 385 The feverish expectation of a visible parousia was requiring modification. 1895Dublin Rev. Apr. 334 The date of Our Lord's second coming, the Parousia. 1910W. Montgomery tr. Schweitzer's Quest Historical Jesus xix. 360 The Parousia of the Son of Man is to be preceded according to the Messianic dogma by a time of strife and confusion. 1918J. H. Leckie World to Come ii. 66 The Church has held its belief in the Parousia in varying forms throughout the ages. 1927A. H. McNeile Introd. New Testament 112 At the end of his [sc. St. Paul's] life, the thought of the Parousia..had practically faded from his mind. 1936A. M. Ramsey Gospel & Catholic Ch. iii. 42 Christ is in us—yet the Parousia is in the future. 1941Auden New Year Let. 39 Thus Wordsworth..Saw in the fall of the Bastille The Parousia of liberty. 1964Listener 27 Feb. 352/1 Your personal Parousia, the Biggest Show on Earth! 1969A. T. Hanson in A. Richardson Dict. Christian Theol. 113/2 The complaint that the parousia (coming) had not arrived as expected. 1977Illustr. London News Nov. 50/4 A pale yellow cross is just visible against a background of deeper yellow... Austin Winkley [the architect] calls it a Parousia cross, significant of the mysterious end of a mysterious journey. 1977G. W. H. Lampe God as Spirit iii. 65 The presence of the Spirit is..a substitute for the early parousia that had at first been expected.
Hence Paˌrousiaˈmania, excitement or frenzy aroused by the thought of the Parousia.
1904Amer. Jrnl. Relig. Psychol. & Educ. May 40 Men chanted, raved, spoke in unknown tongues, prophesied, gazed up into heaven all day, longed for vision, with a real parusiamania. |