What is it about?
The theory of apokatastasis (restoration), most famously defended by the Alexandrian exegete, philosopher and theologian Origen, has its roots in both Greek philosophy and Jewish-Christian Scriptures and literature, and became a major theologico-soteriological doctrine in patristics.
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Why is it important?
This monograph—the first comprehensive, systematic scholarly study of the history of the Christian apokatastasis doctrine—argues its presence and Christological and Biblical foundation in numerous Christian thinkers, including Syriac, and analyses its origins, meaning, and development over eight centuries, from the New Testament to Eriugena, the last patristic philosopher. Surprises await readers of this book, which results from fifteen years of research. For instance, they will discover that even Augustine, in his anti-Manichaean phase, supported the theory of universal restoration. Reviews in https://brill.com/view/title/16787
Perspectives
Future monographs will complete this scholarly investigation: one on philosophical notions of apokatastasis in antiquity and late antiquity, and one on the historical, theological, social, and linguistic causes of the rejection of apokatastasis by the "Church of the Empire" in both East and West.
Professor Ilaria LE Ramelli
Cambridge U.; Durham U.; Sacred Heart U., Angelicum; Princeton; Erfurt MWK; KUL
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This page is a summary of: Ilaria L.E. Ramelli, The Christian Doctrine of Apokatastasis: A Critical Assessment from the New Testament to Eriugena. Leiden: Brill, 2013, xx + 890pp. $346.00, International Journal of Systematic Theology, June 2016, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/ijst.12115.
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