pre-Adamitism

See also: pre-adamitism

English

Alternative forms

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.
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