Traducianism vs Traducian - What's the difference?
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The doctrine that the soul or spirit is inherited from one or both parents.
* 2003 , Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason'', Penguin (2004), page 37''n :
*2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 145:
*: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.
Traducian is a related term of traducianism.
Traducianism is a derived term of traducian.
As nouns the difference between traducianism and traducian
is that traducianism is the doctrine that the soul or spirit is inherited from one or both parents while traducian is one who believes that a child's soul is inherited from its parents.As an adjective traducian is
pertaining to the belief that one's soul is inherited from one's parents.traducianism
English
(wikipedia traducianism)Noun
(-)- Augustine's insistence on its spiritual nature made it hard for him to uphold, along with Tertullian, the doctrine of physical traducianism .