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What is an apocatastasis?

What is an apocatastasis? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (rare) restoration, renovation, reestablishment, particularly:
    1. (religion) An apocalypse leading to the remaking of the world rather than a Final Judgment, (Catholic) an Origenist heresy condemned by the 543 CE Synod of Constantinople.
    2. (religion) The doctrine that all souls will enter heaven or paradise, (Catholic) an Origenist heresy condemned by the 543 CE Synod of Constantinople.
    3. (medicine) Return to an earlier condition.
    4. (astronomy) Return to the same apparent position, as after a revolution.
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This splendid dream of the final solidarity of mankind is the Pauline anacefaleosis and apocatastasis.
And what is this cosmic dream of Bonnefon's but the plastic representation of the Pauline apocatastasis?
We will discuss this more fully, however, in the next chapter on the apocatastasis or beatific union.
Apocatastasis, A name given in the history of theology to the doctrine which teaches that a time will come when all free creatures will share in the grace of salvation.
A Tradition...concerning the Apocatastasis of the World...partly by Inundation and partly by Conflagration.
Apocatastasis, The subsidence of a tumour, or the re-establishment of an exudation or secretion.

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