pre-Adamitism
See also: pre-adamitism
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
pre-Adamite + -ism
Noun
- (theology) The belief that humanity is descended from a single progenitor that predates Adam.
- 1994, Alvin Snider, Origin and Authority in Seventeenth-Century England, page 134:
- The doctrine of 'pre-Adamitism,' while heretical and guaranteed to generate storms of controversy, won some prominent adherents.
- 2007, Davis A. Young, John Calvin and the natural world, →ISBN, page 151:
- He probably also had theological reasons for not considering pre-Adamitism.