traducianistn.adj.

1842 J. H. Newman tr. St. Augustine in tr. St. Athanasius Select Treat. I. i. 179/2 But ye, and ye only, call us Traducianists [L. Traducianos],..as the other heretics use various titles.

1872 H. P. Liddon Some Elements Relig. iii. 102 Of modern Traducianists, Delitzsch among Protestant, and Klee among Roman Catholic writers are perhaps the greatest.

1915 C. C. Smith Parents, Child, & Church v. 153 Some very great metaphysical difficulties from which entanglements the traducianists have not succeeded in extricating themselves.

1944 Church Hist. 13 280 Gregory is neither a strict traducianist, nor yet a strict creationist, but holds that man being one, his soul and body at birth come simultaneously into being.

2014 P. C. Hodgson in R. F. Brown & P. C. Hodgson tr. F. C. Baur Hist. Christian Dogma 189 Augustine was not a traducianist in the full or original sense.

1858 Rambler June 411 The traducianist theory..is undoubtedly calculated to remove much difficulty from some minds too dull, or too penetrating,..to appreciate the subtleties of creationism.

1872 H. P. Liddon Some Elements Relig. iii. 100 Augustine saw in the Traducianist doctrine an element of materialism.

1903 H. C. Sheldon Syst. Christian Doctr. iii. ii. 284 A traducianist can urge that the term ‘father’ is used with much latitude in Scripture.

1988 T. George Theol. of Reformers v. 206 The emphasis on God's direct, immediate activity in the world led Calvin to reject the traducianist theory of the origin of the soul.

2007 Jrnl. Relig. 87 116 Smith's claim that Gregory advocates a traducianist understanding of the soul's origin..is especially problematic.