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Brill Encyclopedia of Early Christianity Online: Traducianism
- 1.0508800 - FLÚ 2020 RIV NL eng E - Electronic Document
Kitzler, Petr
Brill Encyclopedia of Early Christianity Online: Traducianism.
[textový soubor]. - Leiden: Brill, 2019
R&D Projects: GA ČR(CZ) GA19-02741S
Institutional support: RVO:67985955
Keywords : traducianism * creationism * soul * ensoulment * early Christianity * early Christian anthropology * Tertullian
OECD category: Religious studies
https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/brill-encyclopedia-of-early-christianity-online/traducianism-SIM_00003514
Traducianism is a theory that accounts for a possible origin of the human soul maintaining that the soul, germinally contained in bodily sperm, is transmitted through sexual intercourse from the parents to their offspring. This article is a first comprehensive survey of its kind to revisit this concept in the early Church, from its antecedents in Greco-Roman philosophy (Aristotle, Stoicism) and Judeo-Christian milieu, to the fully articulated traducianist theory of Tertullian and its impact on later Christian authors, both Latin and Greek, such as Jerome, Augustine, Gregory of Nyssa and Apollinaris of Laodicea.
Permanent Link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0299620
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