pre-Adamitism

See also: pre-adamitism

English

Alternative forms

• pre-adamitism

Etymology

pre-Adamite +‎ -ism

Noun

pre-Adamitism (uncountable)

1. (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.