Definition of "traducianism" []

• Theology The belief that the soul is inherited from the parents along with the body. (noun)

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• "I probably should have paid better attention in Theology when we talked about the ideas on the origin of the soul because neither traducianism nor creationism seem to lend themselves to this concept, and perhaps there is a good reason those are the only options — at least, those are the only ones I remember being taken seriously, though perhaps Plato was mentioned."
• "For the background on traducianism, see the Catholic Encyclopedia article on it. posted by Brandon | 3:17 PM"
• "To these, so to speak, original errors of the Monophysites, the Ethiopian Church added some of its own: e.g., the belief that the faith of the parents suffices to save their children that die unbaptized; the wholesale repudiation of all Ecumenical Councils held since the council of Ephesus, and the belief in traducianism as an explanation of the soul's origin."