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apocatastasis
[ ap-oh-kuh-tas-tuh-sis ]
noun
- the state of being restored or reestablished; restitution.
- the doctrine that Satan and all sinners will ultimately be restored to God.
Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
- ²¹±è·´Ç·³¦²¹³Ù·²¹Â·²õ³Ù²¹³Ù·¾±³¦ [ap-, uh, -kat-, uh, -, stat, -ik], adjective
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of apocatastasis1
Example Sentences
APOCATASTASIS, a Greek word, meaning “re-establishment,†used as a technical scientific term for a return to a previous position or condition.
We will discuss this more fully, however, in the next chapter on the apocatastasis or beatific union.
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?
And what is this cosmic dream of Bonnefon's but the plastic representation of the Pauline apocatastasis?
This longing is expressed in the anacefaleosis, the gathering together of all things, all things in earth and in heaven, the visible and the invisible, in Christ, and also in the apocatastasis, the return of all things to God, to consciousness, in order that God may be all in all.
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