cosmic restoration

The age to come (aion mellon) is the time of cosmic restoration (apokatastasis) — both describe the eschatological repair of all things, spanning Jewish, Christian, and Islamic traditions.

The eschatological hope of all traditions converges: suffering ends in the age to come. Christian restoration, Islamic paradise, Jewish olam ha-ba — all describe the ultimate repair of what is broken.

Jewish bodily resurrection (tehiyat ha-meitim), Christian resurrection of Christ and final resurrection, Islamic ba'th — all three Abrahamic traditions insist death does not have the final word and await a cosmic reversal.

Judgment is the necessary precondition of restoration — the old order must be judged before the new creation arrives. Apocalyptic literature always pairs judgment with renewal.