apocatastasis

American  

[ap-oh-kuh-tas-tuh-sis] / ˌæp oʊ kəˈtæs tə sɪs /

Or apokatastasis

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

Derived Forms

• apocatastatic
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of apocatastasis

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

Example Sentences

This splendid dream of the final solidarity of mankind is the Pauline anacefaleosis and apocatastasis.

From Tragic Sense Of Life by Flitch, J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford)

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.

From Tragic Sense Of Life by Flitch, J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford)

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

From Tragic Sense Of Life by Flitch, J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford)

Or may it not rather be that, starting from chaos, from absolute unconsciousness, in the eternity of the past, we continually approach the apocatastasis or final apotheosis without ever reaching it?

From Tragic Sense Of Life by Flitch, J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford)

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

From Tragic Sense Of Life by Flitch, J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford)