- Creationist theologians(as holders of a specific view about soul creation)
- Religious scholars who believe that God directly creates individual human souls (rather than souls being inherited or evolved), often in contrast to other theological views.
- Jerome(as a historical example of a Creationist theologian)
- An early Christian theologian and Church Father (4th-5th century) who wrote extensively about biblical interpretation, theology, and the nature of the soul.
- adam(Kaspi's etymological argument for Hebrew's ideal nature)
- Hebrew noun for 'man,' derived from adama (earth), indicating that man originates partly in earth
- ex nihilo(the statement argues self-creation doesn't require an impossible ex nihilo act)
- A Latin phrase meaning 'from nothing'—the idea of creating something with no prior materials or starting point.
- immaterial(describing the nature of the soul)
- Not made of physical matter; existing as pure spirit or thought rather than as something you can touch or measure.
- moral guilt(as something that may or may not transfer to new souls)
- Responsibility for doing something wrong or immoral—in this context, the blame or spiritual debt inherited from Adam's first sin.
- original sin(Scotus's account, drawing on Anselm)
- The disordered ranking of the affection for advantage over the affection for justice
- soul(Aristotelian natural philosophy as transmitted by 'Abd al-Latif)
- A principle introduced to explain animal life beyond what organs alone can account for, but insufficient on its own to explain the full range of human activity