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traducian, n. and a.|trəˈdjuːsɪən, -ˈdjuːʃ(ɪ)ən|
[ad. late L. trāduciān-us, deriv. of trādux, -ducem a layer or shoot for propagation, also in transferred sense: cf. traduce v. 2, 2 b, and -ian. The sense connects itself with that of the vb., ‘to propagate, transmit to posterity’.]
a. n. (a) One who holds that the soul of a child, like the body, is propagated by or inherited from the parents. (b) (less commonly) One who holds the doctrine of the transmission of original sin from parent to child.
b. adj. Applied to such doctrine or theory.
1727–41Chambers Cycl., Traducians, Traduciani, a name which the Pelagians anciently gave the catholics, because of their teaching that original sin was transmitted from father to children... At present some give the appellation traduciani to such as hold that the souls are transmitted to the children by the father. 1864Webster, Traducian, a believer in Traducianism. 1880H. R. Reynolds in Dict. Chr. Biog. II. 240 The Ethiopians maintained a vigorous traducian doctrine of the origin of human souls. 1884W. S. Lilly in Fortn. Rev. Jan. 127 The Traducian view—that the soul, like the body, is derived from the parent—has been held by theologians of much repute.
Hence traˈducianism, (a) the doctrine of the transmission of the soul from the parents (see a (a) above); (b) rarely, the doctrine of the hereditary transmission of original sin (see a (b) above); traˈducianist, a believer in traducianism in either sense; also attrib. or adj.; whence traduciaˈnistic a., pertaining to traducianists or traducianism.
1848R. I. Wilberforce Doctr. Incarnation iii. (1852) 32 This notion was called *Traducianism by the Schoolmen, the system opposed to it being termed Creationism. 1877Shields Final Philos. 199 Tertullian and Gregory of Nyssa had gone to the other extreme of traducianism or the notion of a physical propagation of the soul from parent to child. 1893Tablet 18 Feb. 257 It is not allowable to any loyal Catholic to hold spiritual traducianism or generationism.
1858J. C. Robertson Hist. Chr. Ch. (1875) II. 152 Julian..declared..that the God of the ‘*traducianists’ (as he styled those who held that sin was derived by inheritance) was not the God of the gospel. 1872Liddon Elem. Relig. iii. 100 Augustine saw in the Traducianist doctrine an element of materialism. Ibid. 102 Of modern Traducianists, Delitzsch among Protestant, and Klee among Roman Catholic writers are perhaps the greatest.
1882–3Schaff's Encycl. Relig. Knowl. III. 2318 He [Tertullian] adopts the *traducianistic view of hereditary sin. |