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.

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Other Word Forms

• apocatastatic adjective

Etymology

Origin of apocatastasis

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

Example Sentences

We will discuss this more fully, however, in the next chapter on the apocatastasis or beatific union.

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

May it not be that in the end all shall be saved, including Cain and Judas and Satan himself, as Origen's development of the Pauline apocatastasis led him to hope?

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

It may be said, on the other hand, that the apocatastasis, God's coming to be all in all, presupposes that there was a time when He was not all in all.

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

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