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Beginning to study theology is like stepping into a conversation that has been going on for two thousand years. How do you take part in this conversation—or even make sense of it—if you don't understand the vocabulary or know the contributions made by other participants? The Pocket Dictionary of Theological Terms is the perfect companion to your theological studies. Among its three hundred-plus...

. The biblical phrase used to refer to the second coming of Christ as the fulfillment of our longings (see Tit 2:13). The main twentieth-century evangelical-fundamentalist debate surrounding the blessed hope is whether it will be a secret appearing only to Christians prior to a period of great tribulation (the rapture anticipated by dispensational pretribulational premillennialism) or whether Christ’s appearance will be a public event observable by all people, whether Christian or not