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

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, 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)

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)

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)

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)