Traducianism
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  1. The doctrine that the soul or spirit is inherited from one or both parents.
    • 2003: Augustine's insistence on its spiritual nature made it hard for him to uphold, along with Tertullian, the doctrine of physical traducianism. — Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason (Penguin 2004, p.37n)
 
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