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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What else but this is that atrocity of the eternal pains of hell, which agrees so ill with the Pauline apocatastasis?

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And this first Christian mystic dreamed also of a final triumph of spirit, of consciousness, and this is what in theology is technically called the apocatastasis or restitution.

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

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