Glossary entry

Portuguese term or phrase:

kairós

English translation:

kairos (moment)

Added to glossary by Sormane Gomes
Feb 24, 2006 22:31
18 yrs ago
Portuguese term

kairós

Portuguese to English Art/Literary Anthropology religious
"um kairós que inaugurou uma nova etapa do cristianismo"

Proposed translations

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kairos (moment)

It means the right time, the right moment.

What does the word 'Kairos' mean?
When we respond to kairos—God’s special moment of grace, ... Each of the former inter-church coalitions arose at a “kairos moment” such as the Pinochet ...
www.kairoscanada.org/e/who/kairos.asp - 36k

Why Christian Aid Campaigns: Kairos theology, a call to action
In 2005, the year thousands of people around world are campaigning to make poverty historty, are we approaching a new Kairos moment? photo: Christian Aid ...
www.christianaid.org.uk/campaign/kairos.htm - 18k - Cached - Similar pages

Welcome to Southtowns Christian Center
That was a Kairos moment! A Kairos moment is having the ability to live in “the ... God never intended that Kairos moments be removed from His people. ...
www.sccministries.org/teaching.asp - 21k - Cached - Similar pages

Christian Paradise Magazine - Donna Kazenske
Articles by Christian authors covering a wide variety of topics! ... The second coming of Christ will be a kairos moment. (Mark 13:33) ...
christianparadise.com/Kazenske006.html - 35k

Truth Or Tradition - Father of the Bride: A Kairos Moment is ...
A kairos moment is even better than a Kodak moment. And, as I said, God will provide us opportunity after opportunity. That means that “opportunities pass. ...
www.truthortradition.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article... - 65k - Cached - Similar pages

What does the word 'Kairos' mean?
Each of the former inter-church coalitions arose at a “kairos moment” such as the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile, for example, or the negotiations for the ...
www.kairoscanada.org/e/who/kairos.asp - 36k

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Universidade Metodista de São Paulo - [ Translate this page ]
Não existe melhor frase para explicar o tempo bíblico "kairós". Esta palavra significa tempo oportuno, tempo que se chama hoje. Contrapõe-se à palavra ...
www.metodista.br/principal/comunidade/pastoral/palavra/coti... - 27k -

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Metroactive Features | Joe Firmage's The Truth
Firmage believes we live in a "kairos" in which humanity is finally advanced enough to comprehend alien beings. Despite my skepticism, I find myself locked ...
www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/12.10.98/cover/joefirmage1... - 34k - Cached - Similar pages

Public Catholicism: An American Prospect - Questia Online Library
... and in 1986 published Economic Justice For All. (9) Might completion of Jubilee 2000 begin a kairos in which the future of public Catholicism in this ...
www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=5000924603
Peer comment(s):

agree Edgar Potter : Best left untranslated, as it's an untranslated Greek word in the Portuguese text
1 hr
I thought so too. Thank you, Edgar.
agree reginalobo : não traduzir
12 hrs
Thanks.
agree Tania Marques-Cardoso : From the OED: 'q kairos ("kaIrQs). [Gr. jaiq¾| right or proper time.] Fullness of time; the propitious moment for the performance of an action or the coming into being of a new state.' Cheers!
1 day 16 hrs
Thanks : - )
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Selected automatically based on peer agreement."
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29 mins

spiritual well-being

..promotes the mental, physical, spiritual and social well-being of...
Peer comment(s):

agree AnaCarla
8 hrs
Ta very much
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