apocatastasis

Or ap·o·ka·tas·ta·sis

[ap-oh-kuh-tas-tuh-sis]

noun

1. the state of being restored or reestablished; restitution.

2. the doctrine that Satan and all sinners will ultimately be restored to God.

Other Word Forms

• apocatastatic adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of apocatastasis¹

1670–80; < Latin < Greek: a setting up again. See apo-, catastasis

Example Sentences

APOCATASTASIS, a Greek word, meaning “re-establishment,” used as a technical scientific term for a return to a previous position or condition.

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The apocatastasis, God's coming to be all in all, thus resolves itself into the anacefaleosis, the gathering together of all things in Christ, in Humanity—Humanity therefore being the end of creation.

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And does not this apocatastasis, this humanization or divinization of all things, do away with matter?

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And what is this cosmic dream of Bonnefon's but the plastic representation of the Pauline apocatastasis?

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The apocatastasis is more than a mystical dream: it is a rule of action, it is a beacon beckoning us to high exploits.

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