traducianism

According to traducianism, the soul comes from the parents by natural generation.

Tertullian held a view, traducianism, which was later condemned as heresy.

Yet another argument for opposing traducianism is from the Genesis accounts of creation.

Supporters of traducianism present arguments from the Bible such as the following:

Amongst the Scholastics there were no defenders of traducianism.

Alternative positions are traducianism and creationism, which both hold that the individual human soul does not come into existence until conception.

Through the 19th century the term creationism most commonly referred to direct creation of individual souls, in contrast to traducianism.

Although Traducianism is the only theory (within the map) that will validate original sin, it is now rarely held.

This position is called traducianism in opposition to 'creationism', or the idea that each soul is a fresh creation of God.

The Roman Catholic Church rejects traducianism and affirms creationism.

Alternative Christian views on the origin of souls are traducianism and also the idea of a pre-existence of the soul.

This viewpoint, later known as traducianism, was deemed unsatisfactory by St. Augustine, as it did not account for original sin.

Apollinaris further taught, following Tertullian, that the souls of men were propagated by other souls, as well as their bodies (see traducianism).

The theologians Tertullian and Jerome held to traducianism and creationism, respectively, and the synod condemned Origen's views as anathema.

The term creationism had previously referred to the creation of souls for each new person, as opposed to traducianism, where souls were said to have been inherited from one's parents.

Church Fathers Tertullian and Jerome held to traducianism and creationism, respectively, and pre-existence was condemned as heresy in the Second Council of Constantinople in AD 553.

In Christian theology, traducianism is a doctrine about the origin of the soul (or synonymously, "spirit"), holding that this immaterial aspect is transmitted through natural generation along with the body, the material aspect of human beings.

Reasons for opposing the traducianism of human beings include the metaphysical argument that since humans cannot control their own existence, their existence cannot be caused by themselves; it must rather be caused by a necessary being otherwise known as God.

Augustine of Hippo was undecided between creationism and traducianism, while Jerome condemned traducianism and held that creationism was the opinion of the Church, though he admitted that most Western Christians were traducianists.

Some Reformed Protestants oppose traducianism by contending that it means that if the parents of the child are regenerate, then the soul of the child must also be regenerate, which obscures the doctrine of original sin as articulated by Augustinian theologians of the Calvinist tradition.

He was the first church father to use the term Trinitas in reference to the Godhead and developed the doctrine of traducianism, or the idea that the soul was inherited from the parents, the idea that God had corporeal (although not fleshly) existence, and the doctrine of the authority of the gospels.