Restorationists, a general name for those who hold the belief in a general apocatastasis, or 'restoration' of all things, in which, after a purgation proportioned to the various moral conditions of their souls at the time of death, all men would be restored to the favour of God. The title itself is especially associated with a body of Universalists which flourished at Boston, U.S., in the first half of the 19th century; but for the doctrine, see the article HELL, Vol. V. p. 631, and the articles APOCATASTASIS, and UNIVERSALISTS.
Restorationists
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 8: Peasant to Eoumelia, p. 669
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