Eternalism

Quick meaning: Eternalism is a noun meaning (philosophy) The view that time resembles space and thus past and future events are in some sense coexistent.

Meaning

(philosophy) The view that time resembles space and thus past and future events are in some sense coexistent.

More Meanings

1. (philosophy, theology) The view that matter is uncreated and has existed, and will exist, eternally.

Example Sentences

The first of these is eternalism, which holds that matter, energy, and intelligence—the components of the universe—are uncreated, indestructible, eternal, and forever fixed.

[The earth’s] history stretched indefinitely or even infinitely into past and future and involved no unique and unexplained events such as the Flood; indeed, earth history was “without vestige of a beginning, without prospect of an end.” […] Most significantly, the virtual eternalism of such theories was extended, often explicitly, to the history of mankind[…]. Mankind could thus be claimed as uncreated and therefore not subject to any of the traditional moral and social constraints.

Antonyms for eternalism

Common opposites include presentism.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include coeternity, coeternalness, synechism, compresence, monovalence, cotemporality.

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