Crossword-Solution: PAROUSIA
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Parousia | n. | The nativity of our Lord. |
| Parousia | n. | The last day. |
We have 4 clues for the answer “PAROUSIA”
| Clue | Answers |
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| CHRIST, second coming of (Gk.) | 1 answer |
| GREEK term for the second coming of Christ in judgement at the end of time | 1 answer |
| second coming of Christ | 2 answers |
| Second Coming | 8 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RAEET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PAROUSIA (5)
The Platonists held three knowledges of God;--first, [Greek: parousia], his own incommunicable self-comprehension;--second, [Greek: kata noaesin]--by pure mind, unmixed with the sensuous;--third, [Greek: kat epistaemaen]--by discursive intelligential act.
The doctrine of the Spirit as a present possession of Christians brings down heaven to earth and exalts earth to heaven; the 'Parousia' is now only the end of the existing world-order, and has but little significance for the individual.
Observe their difference: In the Paraclete, Christ comes spiritually and invisibly; in the Parousia, he comes bodily and gloriously.
Christ prayed on behalf of his bereaved church for the coming of this Paraclete: "And I will pray the Father and he shall give you another Paraclete." The Holy Spirit now prays with the pilgrim-church for the hastening of the Parousia.
Since then Quetzalcoatl had disappeared; "But wait!" said his priests, "for he will return." This expectation of Quetzalcoatl's return furnishes a kind of parallel to the Messianic hope, or more closely yet to the early Christian expectation of the _parousia_ or "second coming" of the Christ.
Quotes with PAROUSIA (2)
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.
Like the Church the individual Christian will not be able to escape the deep ambiguities of this-wordly existence whether in its cultural, social, political or other aspects, and he too will inevitably be a mixture of good and evil, with a compromised life, so that he can only live eschatologically in the judgment and mercy of God, putting off the old man and putting on Christ anew each day, always aware that even when he has done all that it is his duty to do he remains an u…