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/tɹəˈdjuːsɪənɪz(ə)m/ · noun
(theology) The doctrine that the soul or spirit is inherited from one or both parents..
Augustine's insistence on its spiritual nature made it hard for him to uphold, along with Tertullian, the doctrine of physical traducianism.
Tertullian suggested that the human soul is transmitted by parents to their children and is therefore inescapably associated with continuing human sin: this doctrine of ‘traducianism’ underlay the pessimistic view of the human condition and its imprisonment in original sin which was presented in an extreme form by that later theological giant from North Africa, Augustine of Hippo.
Use traducianism when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Traducianism means (theology) The doctrine that the soul or spirit is inherited from one or both parents..
Common synonyms include generationism.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Augustine's insistence on its spiritual nature made it hard for him to uphold, along with Tertullian, the doctrine of physical traducianism.
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