Definitions for Parousia

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Parousia Par·ou·si·a

Spelling: [puh-roo-zee-uh, -see-uh, pahr-oo- Parousia is a 8 letter English word.

You can make 256 anagrams from letters in Parousia (aaioprsu).

Definitions for Parousia

noun

1. advent (def 4).
2. (lowercase) Platonism. the presence in any thing of the idea after which it was formed.

Origin of Parousia

1870-75; Greek parousía a being present, presence, equivalent to par- par- + ous- (stem of ôn, present participle of eînai to be) + -ia -ia

Examples for Parousia

They also betray the expectation of the early coming of the Parousia.

Luke, or his source, wishes to indicate that the Parousia may be in the night, and so adds the words and .

Luke (xvii, 34) wishes to suggest that the Parousia may occur in the night.

The thought of an incarnation or a Parousia of Wisdom is absolutely foreign to Jewish thought.

Furthermore, it is not only in the earlier epistles that expressions occur which seem to suggest that the Parousia is near.

They betray the conviction that the time of the Parousia is near.