apocatastasis

== English == === Alternative forms === apokatastasis === Etymology === Learned borrowing from Latin apocatastasis, itself from Ancient Greek ἀποκατάστασις (apokatástasis, “restoration, reëstablishment”), from ἀποκαθίστημι (apokathístēmi, “to stand up again”), from ἀπό- (apó-, “back again”) + καθίστημι (kathístēmi, “to set, place, constitute, appoint”), from κατά- (katá-, “down, for”) + ἵστημι (hístēmi, “to set, stand, establish”). === Noun === apocatastasis (plural apocatastases) (rare) Restoration, renovation, reestablishment, particularly: (especially religion, rare) An apocalypse leading to the remaking of the world rather than a Final Judgment, (Christianity) an Origenist doctrine condemned by the 543 C.E. Synod of Constantinople. 1885, Philip Schaff translating the anathemas confirmed by the 553 C.E. Second Ecumenical Council in The Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: If anyone shall say that all reasonable beings will one day be united in one, when the hypostases as well as the numbers and the bodies shall have disappeared,... moreover, that in this pretended apocatastasis, spirits only will continue to exist... let him be anathema. A Tradition...concerning the Apocatastasis of the World...partly by Inundation and partly by Conflagration. (religion) The doctrine that all souls will enter heaven or paradise, (Christianity) an Origenist doctrine condemned by the 543 C.E. Synod of Constantinople. 1867, R.E. Wallis translating F.J. Delitzsch, A system of Biblical psychology, VII 552: No doctrine...contradicts the Holy Scripture in a more unwarrantable manner than that of the so-called Apokatastasis. (medicine, rare) Return to an earlier condition. (astronomy) Return to the same apparent position, as after a revolution. ==== Synonyms ==== Origenism ==== Translations ==== === References === == Latin == === Etymology === Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀποκατάστασις (apokatástasis). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [a.pɔ.kaˈtas.ta.sɪs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [a.po.kaˈtas.ta.s̬is] === Noun === apocatastasis f (genitive apocatastasis); third declension restoration, return (astrology) return of the stars to their position of the previous year (New Latin, Christianity, theology) apocatastasis (Origenist doctrine holding that an apocalypse shall remake the world rather than lead to a Final Judgment) (New Latin, medicine) restoration of a patient to a healthy condition ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun (i-stem). ==== Related terms ==== apocatastaticus apocatasticus ==== Descendants ==== English: apocatastasis French: apocatastase Portuguese: apocatástase === References === “apocatastasis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “apocatastasis”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “apocatastasis”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources‎[4], London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC