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The dogmatic relation of the Orthodox Church to Origen's doctrine of Apocatastasis
===The dogmatic relation of the Orthodox Church to Origen's doctrine of Apocatastasis===
* The decision anathemas of the Council of Constantinople in 453, understood by most commentators to be confirmed by the [[Fifth Ecumenical Council]] in 553:
**''If anyone asserts the fabulous pre-existence of souls, and shall assert the monstrous restoration which follows from it:  let him be anathema.'' (First anathema against Origen)
**''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, and that the knowledge of the world to come will carry with it the ruin of the worlds, and the rejection of bodies as also the abolition of [all] names, and that there shall be finally an identity of the γνῶσις and of the hypostasis; moreover, that in this pretended apocatastasis, spirits only will continue to exist, as it was in the feigned pre-existence: let him be anathema.'' (Fourteenth anathema against Origen){{ref|1}}
:The decisions of [[ecumenical council]]s have universal authority in the Orthodox Church. Only doctrinal definitions have the force of dogma.
* Prior to the Fifth Ecumenical Council, Origin's doctrine of apocatastasis had been condemned in three local councils in the fifth century: an Alexandrian council, under the presidency of Patriarch Pheofilos, a Cyprian council, under presidency of St. Epifanios of Cyprus, and a Roman council, under the presidency of Pope Anastasius I. Local councils have local authority within specified geographical limits.

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