creationism

Definition

The Abrahamic doctrine that each individual human soul is created by God, as opposed to traducianism.

Etymology

From creation + -ism.

Example Sentences

• "the preservation of the race of man is made to grow out of that quickening impulse, which we call the life of humanity. This notion, which was called Traducianism by the schoolmen (the system opposed to it being termed Creatianism ^([sic]))"
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• "It must be reasonably clear to all who have taken pains to understand the matter that the true issue as regards design is not between Darwinism and direct Creationism, but between design and fortuity, between any intention or intellectual cause and no intention nor predicable first cause."

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