I see a number of threads where someone states that they are a "partial-preterist." I wonder if someone can help me understand the difference between partial preterism and full preterism? Is partial preterism a somewhat fluid term, meaning different things to different people? Is there a semi-standard definition?
Orthodox vs. Unorthodox are good prefixes.
The fundamental difference between the two is that the Orthodox affirm that Jesus will come bodily and that the resurrection is of the body, understood as being the physical body you have, much like Christ's self-same body entered the tomb and came out again.
Within Orthodox Preterists there are differences in understanding a division in Mt. 24:36+ to the rest of the discourse, so some may see Mt. 25 as fulfilled in AD 70, but others do not. All, however, agree that Jesus will come again to judge the living and the dead and that the dead shall rise. The "standard" usually revolves around the timing of the "Great Tribulation".
Within the Unorthodox Preterists, they would make a distinction between hyper & full. The hyper seeing everything as past, the church, sacraments, etc., but the later see ongoing significance for the church, sacraments, etc., almost more of an idealist approach on these things and the ongoing fulfillment of "prophecies", at least the nature of the kingdom.