THE LIVESTREAM - Traducianism: The Fascinating Idea That Explains So Much w/Ben Garrett of Haunted Cosmos

Theology Applied

Right Response Ministries

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.9 • 801 Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2025

⏱️ 72 minutes

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“Time memorialize place. Embodied memory in places generates a connection between the past, present, and future. Our activity with loved ones elevates sites to place of intergenerational love such that through them we experience these places as deposits of familial affection. A trace of love remains.”

– Stephen Wolfe, *The Case for Christian Nationalism*, from the chapter “Loving Your Nation.”

In recovering honor for our fathers and a sense of national identity, one of the most important things will be to forge a connection to our past. We often speak of this connection in terms of knowledge, values, and history. It is something objective and measurable. But what if we are bound together to our family, our home, and our country in even deeper ways?

Traducianism is a historic Christian belief that has been a minority view throughout church history, although it was held by some notable church fathers like Tertullian and Reformers like Luther. Traducianism is the belief that the souls of children are inherited from their parents, like two candles coming together to light another candle. In this view, parents give not just their genetics to their children, but pass on a unique, personal spiritual component as well. In this way, memories, affections, vitality, and other spiritual qualities are passed down through the families and time, shaping each family and nation into a distinct ethnos with its own unique spiritual properties. Even myths and archetypes that we know so well in the West live on in our deepest memories, their details lost to time but their form continually re-presented in our stories, ideas, and even dreams.

Traducianism is a compelling framework that offers a Biblical and enchanted view of the world where families, homes, and history are not merely material matter, but have a spiritual connection to everything that came before and are an essential part of our hope for the future.

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0:17.2	that this ministry is willing to talk about things that most ministries aren't.
0:21.8	We need this content for the glory of God to reach more people's ears.
0:28.2	Time memorializes place. Embodied memory in places generates a connection between the past,
0:34.4	present, and future. Our activity with loved ones elevates sites to place
0:39.7	of intergenerational love such that through them we experience these places as deposits of
0:46.8	familial affection. A trace of love remains. Stephen Wolfe, the case for Christian nationalism,
0:54.0	from the chapter Loving Your Nation.
0:57.5	In recovering honor for our fathers and a sense of national identity, one of the most important
1:03.4	things will be to forge a connection to our past. We often speak of this connection in terms of
1:10.2	knowledge, values, and history. It is something
1:13.5	objective and measurable. But what if we are bound together to our family, our home, and our
1:20.3	country in even deeper ways? Traducianism is a historic Christian belief that has been a minority view throughout church history,
1:29.4	although it was held by some notable church fathers like Tertullian and reformers like Luther.
1:36.9	Traducianism is the belief that the souls of children are inherited from their parents,
1:42.8	like two candles coming together to light another candle.
1:47.0	In this view, parents give not just their genetics to their children, but pass on a unique
1:53.5	personal spiritual component as well. In this way, memories, affections, vitality, and other spiritual qualities are passed down
2:02.5	through the families and time, shaping each family and nation into a distinct ethnos with its own
2:10.1	unique spiritual properties, even myths and archetypes that we know so well in the West live on in our deepest memories,
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