Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Reëstablishment; full restoration; final restitution. Used specifically to denote—
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- noun The
doctrine that one day, all free creatures will share in thegrace ofsalvation . - noun
Restitution ,restoration orreestablishment . - noun
Return to aprevious condition . - noun astronomy Return to the same apparent position, completion of a period of revolution.
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Examples
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Now, theoretically, it ought to be possible to make sort of a real chili cassoulet slow roasted and annealed in the oven until the beef chunks, red kidney beans, anchos, cumin, salt onion and garlic seem ready for the apocatastasis of posterity.
To bean or not to bean | Homesick Texan Homesick Texan 2006
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The great restoration, the apocatastasis, has begun with what we shall celebrate tonight: Jesus' resurrection from the dead.
Archive 2006-04-01 Mike L 2006
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The great restoration, the apocatastasis, has begun with what we shall celebrate tonight: Jesus' resurrection from the dead.
Shadow and light Mike L 2006
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Yet I am as I am, your own race having made us so before the apocatastasis.
The Urth of the New Sun Wolfe, Gene 1987
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St. Gregory of Nyssa, went astray on individual points; the former in regard to the baptism of heretics, the latter in the matter of apocatastasis.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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For it is only when we discover the living link which bound them to the Apostolic Tradition of which they are witnesses, that we shall understand their writings and establish the heterodoxy of some passages, as for instance, the Origenistic apocatastasis in the writings of Gregory of Nyssa.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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The notions of praying somebody out of hell and universalism / apocatastasis are heretical because they violate free will.
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[_apocatastasis_] will take place of demons and impious men, let him be anathema.
A Source Book for Ancient Church History Joseph Cullen Ayer 1905
whichbe commented on the word apocatastasis
Final restitution of all things at the appearance of the Messiah. (from Phrontistery)
May 25, 2008
oroboros commented on the word apocatastasis
Attributed to Allen Ginsberg here.
April 16, 2013