Palingenesis

Palingenesis , also Palingenesie or Palingenesis (from the Greek palin- , “again-” and γένεσις, génesis “ emergence , creation, birth”), is a term used in theology, philosophy, geology, biology and in the social sciences.

• Philosophy:
  • In ancient philosophy ( Heraklit , Stoa ) which is the Palingenesis after a world cycle to the disasters Kataklysmos or Ekpyrosis following creation.
  • In the philosophy of the Pythagoreans, Plato and in Neoplatonism, it describes the reincarnation of the soul through transmigration of souls .
  • With Nietzsche it describes the eternal return of the same.

• Theology:
  • In Christianity it can stand for the rebirth of the inner man through baptism.
  • With Origen it describes the renewal of the whole creation at the end of time ( apocatastasis ).

• In geology , it refers to the remelting of rock to magma .

• In biology it describes the repetition of the development history during the embryonic development of a living being.

• In political science , specifically in research on fascism, palingenesis is a term coined by Roger Griffin that denotes a central element of fascist ideologies, see Palingenesis (social sciences) .