For those not theologically trained, the Parousia is a technical term for the 'second coming of Jesus'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-10-01] Reference

This seems to be a clear reference to the Parousia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Debunking Debunking Christianity Christianity] Reference

We went out to dinner and talked about the Parousia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spin] Reference

Men are unprepared for the Parousia – The waiting servants.    From Wordnik.com.  [Parables ���classification of] Reference

You said:This seems to be a clear reference to the Parousia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Debunking Debunking Christianity Christianity] Reference

Actually she had lost me somewhere around the word "Parousia.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Spin] Reference

There were many predictions of an exact time for the Parousia.    From Wordnik.com.  [MILLENARIANISM] Reference

Christmas, like the Parousia, will come whether or not we are prepared.    From Wordnik.com.  [St. Lucy's Breakfast] Reference

These two girls show up in Parousia to learn Italian and have a good time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tina Brown's Must-Reads: The Failures Of Excess] Reference

There is nothing left to fulfill except for His Parousia; the Gospel is complete.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evolution and Liberal Christianity] Reference

B/c of what He's already said, there's no reason to expect any other similar revelation until the Parousia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bad Boy Bible Study] Reference

Ms. BROWN: The crime was a particularly unsettling one, which was two exchange students go to Parousia to study abroad.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tina Brown's Must-Reads: The Failures Of Excess] Reference

As I get older, I grow more and more to accept that we do not, and until the Parousia will not, live in a better world.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2005-12-01] Reference

I find myself wondering if the Parousia is something that happened in the first century, like Andrew Perriman discusses.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Historical Christ and the Theological Jesus] Reference

I haven´t seen any so far and I guess we will have to wait even beyond the Parousia before Doherty and his allies finds any.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Death of the Mythical Messiah] Reference

That will, of course, cease to be the case at the Parousia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Weedon's Blog] Reference

He asked me to read "The Parousia" by James Stuart Russell.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hip and Thigh] Reference

The only theory which held its ground was that of the double Parousia.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Beginnings of Christianity. Vol. II.] Reference

The expectation of the Parousia was of the greatest importance for the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Beginnings of Christianity. Vol. II.] Reference

The Parousia of the Lord, which was an expositing of 1 Thessalonians 4: 13-18.    From Wordnik.com.  [Possessing the Treasure] Reference

Between the destruction of Jerusalem and the Parousia he inserts the seasons of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Beginnings of Christianity. Vol. II.] Reference

Hence nearly all modern interpreters hold that there is a reference to the final Parousia.    From Wordnik.com.  [NPNF1-12. Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians] Reference

This belief in requital was proof against all disappointment caused by the delayed Parousia.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Beginnings of Christianity. Vol. II.] Reference

I hope this is not becoming another pun thread: I am doctrinally opposed to the Parousia of paronomasia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sadly, No!] Reference

"The Parousia for which the Lord had looked, delayed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Case of Richard Meynell] Reference

The political order — while waiting for the Parousia (Second.    From Wordnik.com.  [ECONOMIC HISTORY] Reference

Bands like Parousia, Escher's Knot, The Bicycle Days, All the Fat Children.    From Wordnik.com.  [ Analysis] Reference

Parousia or no Parousia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spin] Reference

The Hypotheticals as agents of the Parousia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spin] Reference

Some Speculations Around George Oppen’s Parousia by Rob Halpern.    From Wordnik.com.  [PUBLICATIONS WRITTEN OR EDITED by KENNETH WARREN, STEVE TILLS, STACY SZYMASZEK, ROB HALPERN, ALLI WARREN, LAWRENCE GRIFFIN & JAMES YEARY] Reference

2002, Texts and Studies on Byzantine Philosophy, Athens: Parousia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Byzantine Philosophy] Reference