Świętego Klemensa z Aleksandrii pogląd na apokatastazę
Saint Clement of Alexandria’s Understanding of Apocatastasis

Summary/Abstract: The topic of apocatastasis is one of the most important and most controversial theological questions in Christian teaching. This issue functions as a so-called theologumenon, which is a private theological opinion, which, however, does not gained universal acceptance among the faithful and the approval of the official teaching of the Church. However, apocatastasis moved the hearts and minds of several theologians, philosophers, writers, mystics and poets. Many of them were accused of heresy when they confronted the belief that sinners will be doomed to eternal torment with God’s will for universal salvation. The most predominant figure was Origen (c. 185 – c. 254), whose name is commonly associated with apocatastasis. It was he who gave it its particular form and gave it a consistent justification. Christian teaching about apocatastasis can be found even earlier. One of the early Christian writers and Fathers, in whose creative legacy can be found several statements referring to the idea of universal salvation, was Titus Flavius Clemens, also known as saint Clement of Alexandria (c. 140 – c. 215). It can be clearly stated that the Alexandrian scholar’s writings contain the idea of apokatastasis ton panton, both in cosmic and personal dimensions. It could also be said that he was the first Christian theologian and philosopher who moved in the direction of a concept of universal salvation. His writings accepted the form of the universal theory of God’s pedagogy, whose final goal is that “God would be all in all” (1 Cor. 15:28).

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