Quotes About Parousia

the expectation that he will come again—in fulfillment of all human longing at the end of time. "Parousia" is the technical name for this expectation; "eschatology

changed the course of history, but the process was not yet complete. It was only when Jesus returned at the Parousia that "we shall all be changed" and "death be swallowed up in victory."64 Then and only then would Christ establish the Kingdom, "deposing every sovereignty, authority, and power."65

The one Kingdom comes in two stages: a temporary heavenly reign, followed by an eternal earthly reign, the two being separated by a single Parousia when the High King descends from heaven to consummate all things in final reward and retribution.

In this respect, to convert is to locate oneself in a particular temporality and duration. This duration is that of the inexhaustible future constituted by the infinite, the time of eternity, the time that inaugurates divine existence and its extension in the redemption of the body; thus its final point of completion—if there is one—is the parousia.

If the church preaches faith in anything other than the resurrection - if it gives so much as the impression that anything else, be it political action, moral achievement, or spiritual proficiency, can save the world - it becomes just one more false, parochial prophet leading the world away from the catholic parousia of Christ in the universal death of history.

The first resurrection, then, takes place at the parousia, the second when Christ abdicates his kingdom.

The underlying idea is none other than that the times preceding the parousia require a unique concentration of the minds of believers upon the Lord and the manner in which they may best please Him.

The full truth will be disclosed when "the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts" (1:19) — at the parousia.

Jesus linked the consummation of the kingdom with the parousia and the resurrection, for this age ends on the day of God's wrath.

Only by having a sense of history's trajectory (even if one does not believe in Parousia) can one love earthly reality and believe—with charity—that there is still room for Hope.

An altogether more complicated issue concerns the parousia, or "royal presence" or "manifestation," of Jesus. Clearly it was always part of Paul's message that the kingdom, on earth as in heaven, had already been launched through the events of Jesus's death and resurrection, but it needed to be completed, and that would happen at Jesus's return.

When your eyes are on prosperity, they are moved away from the parousia, a Greek word for the Lord's coming

Peter is saying simply that what appears to be a lengthy delay to us is nothing to God. Peter is making no comment here about the timing of the Parousia, for he wrote the entire letter to insist that the timing will be just as Jesus promised.