parousia

noun

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par·ou·sia | \ ˌpär-ü-ˈsē-ə

, pə-ˈrü-zē-ə

variants: or Parousia

Definition of parousia

in Christian theology

: the time when Jesus Christ will return to judge humanity at the end of the world : second coming Christians around A.D. 64 anxiously awaited the parousia, Jesus Christ's imminent Second Coming.— Tom Mueller In a word, everything hinges on the interpretation, or rather, re-interpretation of the parousia, that is, the time of the arrival of the Messiah.— Otto Rank … treading the paths of history in order to come at last to the Parousia. — States News Service