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However, Judeo-Christian thought also makes an " innovation of the first importance ", Eliade says, because it embraces the notion of linear, historical time ; in Christianity, " time is no longer the circular Time of the Eternal Return ; it has become linear and irreversible Time ".

Summarizing Eliade's statements on this subject, Eric Rust writes, " A new religious structure became available.

In the Judaeo-Christian religions — Judaism, Christianity, Islam — history is taken seriously, and linear time is accepted.

[...] The Christian myth gives such time a beginning in creation, a center in the Christ-event, and an end in the final consummation.