- A Christian heresy derived from the Greek word apocatastasis , which means " complete salvation ". It is the belief that everyone would eventually reach heaven after death. It was promoted in the 2nd and early 3rd centuries of the Christian church by Clement and Origen. Traditional Christianity has taught that heaven is reserved for a small minority of people. Many denominations are drifting towards Universalism because an eternity in Hell seem to many people to be incompatible with a loving deity.
- A concept in Judaism that " God created the entire universe as a single entity, that all people were created for a common moral purpose, and that God chose the Jews to convey a moral message to all humanity so that the redemption available to all people through God might occur. "