noun. The belief that the soul is inherited from the parents along with the body.

noun. In theology, the doctrine that both the body and the soul of man are propagated, as opposed to creationism, which regards every soul as a new creation out of nothing. Also called generationism.

noun. The doctrine that human souls are produced by the act of generation; -- opposed to creationism, and infusionism.

noun. The doctrine that the soul or spirit is inherited from one or both parents.

"I probably should have paid better attention in Theology when we talked about the ideas on the origin of the soul because neither traducianism nor creationism seem to lend themselves to this concept, and perhaps there is a good reason those are the only options — at least, those are the only ones I remember being taken seriously, though perhaps Plato was mentioned."

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