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Definition of "apocatastasis" []

  • The doctrine that one day, all free creatures will share in the grace of salvation. (noun)
  • Restitution, restoration or reestablishment. (noun)
  • Return to a previous condition. (noun)
  • Return to the same apparent position, completion of a period of revolution. (noun)

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Use "apocatastasis" in a sentence
  • "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."
  • "The great restoration, the apocatastasis, has begun with what we shall celebrate tonight: Jesus' resurrection from the dead."
  • "Yet I am as I am, your own race having made us so before the apocatastasis."