Creatianism
The Kreatianismus (from Latin creatio , "the creation") is a Christian teaching about the origin of the soul , which was formulated and justified by the church father Laktanz . It says that the soul is not conveyed to a person by his parents through procreation ( generatianism ) and also does not exist before the formation of the body ( doctrine of pre-existence ), but is created by God at the time of procreation and is inserted into the body being formed. From the point of view of some church fathers, creatianism had the disadvantage that it could not explain the original sin (not yet so designated at the time) like generatianism , the transfer of sinfulness from Adam to his descendants, since a newly created soul was not affected by the original sin seemed to be. Therefore, Augustine of Hippo could not choose between generatianism and creatianism. Later, however, the Catholic Church declared creatianism to be a binding doctrine, and the contrary views were condemned. Based on Ps 2,7 ELB it is argued that at the moment of conception the new personality arose.
literature
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- John M. Rist: Augustine. Ancient thought baptized , Cambridge 1994, pp. 317-320
- Wayne Grudem: Chapter 23 - The essential Nature of Man , in Systematic Theology , ivp 2007, pp. 484-486