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Brill Encyclopedia of Early Christianity Online: Traducianism
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SYSNO ASEP 0508800 Document Type E - Electronic Document R&D Document Type R&D Presentation (audio-visual, electronic documents. Documents released only in a form readable by a computer (eg . documents released on CD only), available only via the Internet, WEB presentation. Title Brill Encyclopedia of Early Christianity Online: Traducianism Author(s) Kitzler, Petr (FLU-F) RID, ORCID, SAI Issue data Leiden: Brill, 2019 ISSN 2589-7993 Publication form Online - E Language eng - English Country NL - Netherlands Issue 25 September 2019 Keywords traducianism ; creationism ; soul ; ensoulment ; early Christianity ; early Christian anthropology ; Tertullian Subject RIV AA - Philosophy ; Religion OECD category Religious studies R&D Projects GA19-02741S GA ČR - Czech Science Foundation (CSF) Institutional support FLU-F - RVO:67985955 DOI 10.1163/2589-7993_EECO_SIM_00003514 Annotation 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. Workplace Institute of Philosophy Contact Chlumská Simona, chlumska@flu.cas.cz ; Tichá Zuzana, asep@flu.cas.cz Tel: 221 183 360 Year of Publishing 2020 Electronic address https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/brill-encyclopedia-of-early-christianity-online/traducianism-SIM_00003514
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