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# Theologian Tertullian regarded the soul as a body of a special kind linked to semen
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/khristianskii-bogoslov-ii-iii-v/
- Published: 2017-11-02T18:04:58.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-02T19:09:45.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Faith, Science

The Christian theologian of the 2nd and 3rd centuries Tertullian, known as one of the progenitors of the doctrine of the Trinity, advanced a rather original idea: that all entities are endowed with a peculiar body as their form of existence, the soul included, being "a body of a special kind". According to Tertullian, the soul enters a human being not from outside but from semen, which is the carrier of the soul. Accordingly, he insists that the swallowing of semen is an act of cannibalism.