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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. 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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  1. n. The doctrine that one day, all free creatures will share in the grace of salvation.
  2. n. Restitution, restoration or reestablishment.
  3. n. Return to a previous condition.
  4. n. astronomy Return to the same apparent position, completion of a period of revolution.

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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

  • “The great restoration, the apocatastasis, has begun with what we shall celebrate tonight: Jesus' resurrection from the dead.”

    Archive 2006-04-01

  • “Yet I am as I am, your own race having made us so before the apocatastasis.”

    The Urth of the New Sun

  • “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

  • “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

  • “The notions of praying somebody out of hell and universalism / apocatastasis are heretical because they violate free will.”

    A conservative blog for peace

  • “[_apocatastasis_] will take place of demons and impious men, let him be anathema.”

    A Source Book for Ancient Church History

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  • oroboros Attributed to Allen Ginsberg here. Apr 16, 2013

  • whichbe Final restitution of all things at the appearance of the Messiah. (from Phrontistery) May 25, 2008

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