apocatastasis
Americannoun
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the state of being restored or reestablished; restitution.
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the doctrine that Satan and all sinners will ultimately be restored to God.
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Etymology
Origin of apocatastasis
1670–80; < Latin < Greek: a setting up again. See apo-, catastasis
Example Sentences
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And what is this cosmic dream of Bonnefon's but the plastic representation of the Pauline apocatastasis?
From Tragic Sense Of Life by J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford) Flitch
May there not be a connection between this conclusion of scientific philosophy with respect to a final state of stability and homogeneity and the mystical dream of the apocatastasis?
From Tragic Sense Of Life by J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford) Flitch
This splendid dream of the final solidarity of mankind is the Pauline anacefaleosis and apocatastasis.
From Tragic Sense Of Life by J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford) Flitch
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 J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford) Flitch
And does not this apocatastasis, this humanization or divinization of all things, do away with matter?
From Tragic Sense Of Life by J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford) Flitch
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