pre-adamitism

1. alternativeuncountableAlternative form of pre-Adamitism.

   Various of polygenism (plurality of origin) Theories has found special favor, partly as co-adamitism, or descent of different races from different progenitors (Paracelsus and others), partly as pre-adamitism,

   1939, James Orr, The International standard Bible encyclopaedia - Volume 1, page 147

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   Neither polygenism — which contends that there have been separate creations for each of the distinct species — nor pre-adamitism — which asserts that humanity existed before Adam and that he was the head only of a specific stock — has any support in the Scriptures.

   1947, Lewis Sperry Chafer, Systeatic Theology, page 142

alternative pre-adamitism · alternative Preadamitism

1. uncountablelifestyleThe belief that humanity is descended from a single progenitor that predates Adam.

   He probably also had theological reasons for not considering pre-Adamitism.

   2007, Davis A. Young, John Calvin and the natural world, →ISBN, page 151

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   The doctrine of 'pre-Adamitism,' while heretical and guaranteed to generate storms of controversy, won some prominent adherents.

   1994, Alvin Snider, Origin and Authority in Seventeenth-Century England, page 134