Definitions For Apocatastasis

Noun

{{en-noun, apocatastases}} (rare) restoration, restoration, renovation, reestablishment, particularly: (especially, religion, rare) An apocalypse leading to the remaking of the world rather than a final judgment, (Christianity) an origenist doctrine condemned by the 543 {{A.D.}} {{w, Synod of Constantinople}}. {{quote-text, en, year=1678, translator=Ralph Cudworth, author=Julius Firmicus, title=The true intellectual system of the universe, section=I iv 328 1885, Philip Schaff translating the anathemas confirmed by the 553 {{A.D.}} second ecumenical council in The Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: : If anyone shall say that all reasonable beings will one day be united in one, when the hypostases as well as the numbers and the bodies shall have disappeared,... moreover, that in this pretended apocatastasis, spirits only will continue to exist... let him be anathema. : A Tradition...concerning the Apocatastasis of the World...partly by Inundation and partly by Conflagration. {{quote-text, en, year=2003, month=January, author=Edward Moore, title=Origen of Alexandria and apokatastasis: Some Notes on the Development of a Noble Notion (religion) The doctrine that all souls will enter heaven or paradise, (Christianity) an origenist doctrine condemned by the 543 {{A.D.}} Synod of Constantinople. 1867, R.E. Wallis translating F.J. Delitzsch, A system of Biblical psychology, VII 552: : No doctrine...contradicts the Holy Scripture in a more unwarrantable manner than that of the so-called Apokatastasis. {{quote-text, en, year=1907, author=Pierre Batiffol, title=The Catholic Encyclopedia (medical, rare) return, return to an earlier condition. {{quote-text, en, year=1753, title=A supplement to Mr. Chambers's Cyclopædia {{quote-text, en, year=1880, title=The New Sydenham Society's lexicon of medicine and the allied sciences (astronomy) return, return to the same apparent position, as after a revolution. {{quote-text, en, year=1822, translator=Thomas Taylor, author=w:Apuleius, title=Metamorphosis, or {{w, Golden Ass}}, section=I 33

Synonyms

Origenism

Translations

Arabic: اِسْتِعَادَة كُلِّيَّة, f (istiʕāda kulliyya) Greek: αποκατάσταση, f Polish: apokatastaza, f Portuguese: apocatástase, f Russian: апоката́стасис, m, impf

Alternative forms

apokatastasis

Etymology

From "restoration, reëstablishment", from ἀποκαθίστημι, , to stand up again,Oxford English Dictionary, "apocatastasis, n." from ἀπό-, , back again + καθίστημι, , I set, place, constitute, appoint, from κατά, κατά-, down, for + ἵστημι, , I set, stand, establish.

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