By Ilaria Ramelli
The idea of apokatastasis (restoration), such a lot famously defended via the Alexandrian exegete, thinker and theologian Origen, has its roots in either Greek philosophy and Jewish-Christian Scriptures and literature, and have become an enormous theologico-soteriological doctrine in patristics. This monograph—the first accomplished, systematic scholarly learn of the heritage of the Christian apokatastasis doctrine—argues its presence and Christological and Biblical beginning in several Christian thinkers, together with Syriac, and analyses its origins, which means, and improvement over 8 centuries, from the recent testomony to Eriugena, the final patristic thinker. Surprises anticipate readers of this e-book, which ends from fifteen years of analysis. for example, they're going to observe that even Augustine, in his anti-Manichaean part, supported the idea of common recovery.
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Her. 21 the restoration of the bones (ἀποκατάστασις τῶν ὀστέων) scattered in hell represents both the anastasis from death and the apokatastasis from evil, which is spiritual death (“in the land of sin, in the land of the dead, in the land of evilness”). In Comm. in Matt. 13,2,163 the universal apokatastasis (τὰ πάντα ἀποκαταστήσεται) is described as the dwelling of Christ in the saints: ἵνα ἀποκαταστᾶσι καὶ ἐκ τῆς ἀποκαταστάσεως γενομένοις χωρητικοῖς τῆς δόξης τοῦ Χριστοῦ ἐπιδημήσῃ ὁ ἐν δόξῃ ὀφθησόμενος υἱὸς τοῦ Θεοῦ.
These Old-Testament occurrences of the verb ἀποκαθίστημι, which mostly correspond to the Hebrew yšb, to which they add the notion of return to an original state, are rendered into Latin not only by restituo, as the totality of occurrences in the NT, but also by a variety of verbs, depending on the meaning in each case. Restituo is used in the most important cases, those in which God’s action of restoration is perceived as having a soteriological value, for instance in Ps 34:17: restitue animam meam a malignitate eorum; in Dan 4:33 Nebuchadnezzar says: restitutus sum (by God).
G. ” It can also mean “to restore” in reference to a philological emendation of a text; Origen, who was a Biblical philologist no less than a theologian–philosopher, uses ἀποκαθίστημι in this sense in Comm. in Eph. 3:17–19 and Sel. in Ps. 50 PG 12,1453B. But the most specific and technical meaning of the verb is that concerning apokatastasis or eventual universal restoration, for instance again in Origen: “the impious and the demons will be restored [ἀποκατασταθήσονται] to their original order,” evidently by God (Princ.