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

May not this apocatastasis, this return of all things to God, be rather an ideal term to which we unceasingly approach—some of us with fleeter step than others—but which we are destined never to reach?

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

And this recapitulation—ανακεφαλαιωσις, anacefaleosis—the end of the world's history and of the human race, is merely another aspect of the apocatastasis.

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

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.

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 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)