recapitulation

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The symmetry provided by Christ's life to the teachings of the Old Testament; the summation of human experience in Jesus Christ.

   One would expect God's final purpose to be expressed in his created world, since the doctrine of recapitulation showed that this is where his plans had worked out before.

From Anglo-Norman recapitulaciun et al., Middle French recapitulacion et al., or their source, from Late Latin recapitulatio (“summing up, summary”), from the participle stem of recapitulare (“recapitulate”), from re- + capitulum (“chapter, section”), diminutive of caput (“head”).

Topics