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===Origen===St. [[OrigenAugustine of Hippo|Augustine]]===wrote the following about Origen:
:"Very different, however, is the error, promoted by tenderness of heart and human compassion, of those who suppose that the miseries of those condemned by that judgement will be temporal, whereas the felicity of all men, who are released after a shorter or longer period, will be everlasting. Now if this opinion is good and true, just because it is compassionate, then it will be the better and the truer the more compassionate it is. Then let the fountain of compassion be deepened and enlarged until it extends as far as the evil angels, who must be set free, although, of course, after many ages, and ages of any length that can be imagined! ...For all that, his error would manifestly surpass all errors in its perversity, its wrong-headed contradiction of the express words of God, by the same margin as, in his own estimation, his belief surpasses all other opinions in its clemency."
: — St. [[Augustine of Hippo]], ''City of God'' 21.17 (trans. Bettenson)
===[[Clement of Alexandria]]===
===Gregory of Nyssa===St. [[Gregory of Nyssa]]===accepted the idea of apocatastasis from Origen. However, this part of St. Gregory's writings has been unequivocally rejected by the subsequent [[Church Fathers]]: * St. Varsanofios the Great, criticizing the doctrine of apocatastasis, when asked about St. Gregory's opinion, has answered: "do not think that people, though also [[saint]]s, could completely understand all depths of God... Even if a saint speaks about such opinions, you will not find that he confirmed the words as though had the statement from above, but that they resulted from the doctrine of his former teachers, and he, trusting their knowledge of them, did not inquire of God whether it was true."{{citation}} * St. Herman of Constantinople has also expressed a negative opinion of the doctrine, but he supposes that the works of St. Gregory have been damaged by Origenists: "those who liked that absurd idea, as if for demons and for people who will be subjected to eternal punishment, is possible to expect the discontinuance... they have taken his clean and sensible works and have added the dark and disastrous poison of Origen's nonsense."{{citation}} * St. [[Mark of Ephesus]], after citing St. Gregory, exclaims: "Are we wrong when we do not believe those words of St. Gregory of Nyssa, considering them forgeries, or, even if they are original, to not accept as contradictory to Scripture and to the general [[dogma]]?"{{citation}}
* St. [[Maximus the Confessor]], rejecting an Origenistic interpretation of apocatastasis, considered that St. Gregory used this term "in sense of restoration of cognitive forces of the man in that condition of the correct relation to truth."{{citation}}
* St. [[Photius the Great]] has expressed the Church's general interpretation in one phrase: "that in works of St. Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, where restoration is mentioned, it is not accepted by the Church."{{citation}}
===[[Evagrius Ponticus]]===
===[[Isaac of Syria]]===
==Sources and External links==* The decision {{note|1}} [[Kallistos (Ware) of Constantinopoleus Counsil Diokleia]], "Dare we hope for the salvation of 453 yearall?" in ''The Inner Kingdom: The Collected Works,'' vol. I, confirmed by V Ecumenical Counsil (=12 anathematismCrestwood, NY: SVS Press, 2000).*{{note|2}} ''The Anathemas against Origen,'' Anathema I, XIV. Online at [http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf214.xii.ix.html CCEL]. Access date: Dec 9, 2010.*[[w:apocatastasis|Wikipedia article]]*[http: //www.newadvent.org/cathen/01599a.htm Catholic Encyclopedia article]
==Other articles of interest==*[http://www.firstthings.com/ftissues/ft0305/articles/dulles.html The Population of Hell] by Avery Cardinal Dulles, <em>First Things</em>133 (May 2003): 36-41*[http://www.firstthings.com/article/2001/08/will-all-be-saved Will all be saved?] - Richard J. Neuhaus, ''First Things'' 115 (August/September 2001): 77-104.*[http://www.catholicculture.org/docs/doc_view.cfm?recnum=3344 The Inflated Reputation of Hans Urs von Balthasar] ''New Oxford Review'', March 2000.*[http://www.catholicculture.org/docs/doc_view.cfm?recnum=969 Is Hell Closed Up & Boarded Over?] - by David Watt, ''New Oxford Review''"Who speaks or thinks, that punishment of demons Feb. 1999.*[http://www.theuniversityconcourse.com/II,9,5-6-1997/Healy.htm On Hope, Heaven and impious people temporarily Hell] - by Nick Jr. Healy, ''The University Concourse'', Volume II, Issue 9. May 6, 1997.*[http://www.catholicculture.org/docs/doc_view.cfm?recnum=565 Von Balthasar and after some time it will have the end or after that will be restoration of demons and impious peopleSalvation] - by James T. O'Connor, ''Homiletic & Pastoral Review'', July 1989.*[http://www.spiritualityhealth.com/newsh/items/article/item_3987.html Adventures in New Testament Greek: ''Apocatastasis''] - anathema!"a poem by [[Scott Cairns]], ''Philokalia: New and Selected Poems'', Zoo Press, March 1, 2002.