单词 | parousia |
释义 | Parousian. 1. a. Theology. The appearance of Christ in glory at the end of time; the Second Coming. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > biblical events > Second Coming > [noun] Second Comingc1400 return1550 advent1736 second advent1736 Parousia1781 1781 H. Taylor (title) Thoughts on the nature of the grand apostacy... To which are added, Three Dissertations:- I. On the Parousia of Christ: II. On the millennium: [etc.]. 1844 J. R. Hurd (title) Hyponoia; or, thoughts on a spiritual understanding..of the Apocalypse..with some remarks upon the Parousia, or Second Coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. 1875 Expositor May 385 The feverish expectation of a visible parousia was requiring modification. 1910 W. Montgomery tr. A. Schweitzer Quest Hist. 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. 1969 A. Hanson in A. Richardson Dict. Christian Theol. 113/2 Theology could only answer the complaint that the parousia (coming) had not arrived as expected by saying that..it might occur very soon. 2001 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 15 Nov. 34/4 It was only a generation or two later, with the increasing delay of the Parousia..that the image of the Jesus familiar from experience began to fade. b. In extended use: an event comparable to the Second Coming; a messianic or apocalyptic appearance. ΘΚΠ society > communication > manifestation > disclosure or revelation > [noun] > a disclosure > striking revelationa1625 Parousia1941 aha1980 1941 W. H. Auden New Year Let. 39 Thus Wordsworth..Saw in the fall of the Bastille The Parousia of liberty. 1964 Listener 27 Feb. 352/1 Your personal Parousia, the Biggest Show on Earth! 1981 Atlantic (Nexis) Apr. 130 The conclusion of the opera is the Parousia as well as the end of a world. 2002 Afr. Amer. Rev. 36 227 A preeminent and self-reliant self lifts out of its confusing history in a parousia of self-knowledge. 2. Philosophy and Literary Theory. A transcendent presence. ΚΠ 1912 J. A. Stewart in G. S. Gordon Eng. Lit. & Classics ii. 42 Such symbols..are just what the platonist mood is aware of as objects of sense informed with the parusia, the real presence, of the Beauty, in its various specific forms, of the eternal world. 1952 Jrnl. Philos. 49 416 Being in the Greek tradition came to be understood as substance, ousia, and substance in turn was associated with parousia, presence. 1970 P. de Man in H. Bloom Romanticism & Consciousness i. 68 The presence of a transcendental principle, in fact conceived as omnipresence (parousia), can be hidden from man by man's own volition. 1988 N. Jacobson Heart of Buddhist Philos. iii. 49 What Hegel has in mind with the term ‘experience’ is the parousia of the Absolute; experience is the presence of Being. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1781 |
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