Denial implies no beginning. If uncreated and linear it is unendingly long, backwards. This seems to me to be close to the position of uniformitarianism and many theistic evolutionists today. If uncreated and cyclical we get eternal return, which is probably the most consistent way to look at Heraclitus, Aristotle and Hegel, as well as many Oriental philosophies of history.
Eternal return implies that history repeats itself in a literal sense.
Nothing is ever new, progress is illusory. Buddhism is probably the most consistent reaction to this view of history, with its attempt to extinguish desire. But CVT and Christian orthodoxy in general teach that desire is good, used in submission to God's laws. Western uniformitarianism is harder to deal with, and it grips many of our fellow scientists today. I say harder because I am not knowledgeable about recent developments in the physics side of creation.