apocatastasis

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We will discuss this more fully, however, in the next chapter on the apocatastasis or beatific union For the present let it suffice to say that there is a vast current of suffering urging living beings towards one another, constraining them to love one another and to seek one another, and to endeavour to complete one another, and to be each himself and others at the same time.

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  1. Reëstablishment; full restoration; final restitution. Used specifically to denote— In astronomy, the periodic circulation of a planet, as bringing it back to the point from which it had set out. In medicine, the restoration which is indicated by the cessation or subsiding of an abscess or a tumor. In theology, the final restitution of all things, in which all the wicked of all time will be fully restored to the favor of God. The doctrine of such a restitution, founded on Acts iii. 21 and other passages of Scripture, has appeared in the Christian church at different times during the past seventeen centuries, and forms an important feature of the creed of modern Universalists. See restitution. Also spelled apokatastasis.

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  • The notions of praying somebody out of hell and universalism / apocatastasis are heretical because they violate free will. —  A conservative blog for peace
  • We will discuss this more fully, however, in the next chapter on the apocatastasis or beatific union For the present let it suffice to say that there is a vast current of suffering urging living beings towards one another, constraining them to love one another and to seek one another, and to endeavour to complete one another, and to be each himself and others at the same time. —  Tragic Sense Of Life
  • 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. —  Tragic Sense Of Life
  • And does not this apocatastasis, this humanization or divinization of all things, do away with matter? —  Tragic Sense Of Life
  • 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 May not this apocatastasis, this return of all things to God, be rather an ideal term to which we unceasingly approach--some of us with fleeter step than others--but which we are destined never to reach? —  Tragic Sense Of Life
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  1. from Greek ἀποκαράστασ, σ1ις, the period of a star, return, restoration, from ἀποκαθιστάναι, restore, return, reëstablish, from ἀπό, from, + κ)οκαθιστάναι, establish, from κατά. down. + ἱστάναι, set, cause to stand, = L. stare, stand.
 

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