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'''''Rationes seminales''''' ([[Latin]], from the [[Greek language|Greek]] ''λόγοι σπερματικοὶ'' or ''logoi spermatikoi''), translated variously as "germinal principles", "causal principles", "primordial reasons", "original factors", "seminal reasons", "seminal virtues", or "seedlike principles", express a [[theological]] theory on the origin of species. This involves the doctrine of a divine [[cosmogony | creation of the world]] in [[seed]] form, with certain potentialities, which can then develop or unfold accordingly over time; what appears as change is simply the realization of the preexisting potentialities. The theory is a metaphor of the growth of a plant: much as a planted seed eventually develops into a tree, so a [[Creator deity | creator-god]] formed the world by planting ((lang | la | rationes seminales)), from which all subsequent life sprung. The concept functions to reconcile the belief that God created all things with the evident fact that new things are constantly developing.

The roots and terminology of this idea occur within the [[Hellenistic philosophy]] of the [[Stoicism |Stoics]] (4th century BCE onwards) and in [[Neoplatonism]].<ref>Christoph Helmig, ''Forms and Concepts: Concept Formation in the Platonic Tradition'', Walter de Gruyter (2012), p. 194)</ref> 
The idea passed into [[Christian thought]] through the writings of authors such as  [[Justin Martyr]] (2nd century CE),<ref>
((cite book
 |last1                = Horowitz
 |first1               = Maryanne Cline
 |author-link1         = Maryanne Cline Horowitz
 |year                 = 1998
 |chapter              = The Challenge to Christian Theologians
 |title                = Seeds of Virtue and Knowledge
 |url                  = https://books.google.com/books?id=XQoN_eo0p5AC
 |series               = ACLS Humanities E-Book
 |publication-place    = Princeton, New Jersey
 |publisher            = Princeton University Press
 |page                 = 49
 |isbn                 = 9780691044637
 |access-date          = 15 September 2023
 |quote                = The Stoic phrase ''seminales rationes'', 'seminal reasons,' passes into Christian vocabulary in the first century. [...] in particularly Christian fashion, [Saint] Paul uses the Stoic imagery of seeds to explain Christ's resurrection. The true reality of a human being, the seed may throw off both soul and flesh and assume a new body, as occurred when Christ was resurrected.[...] The Greek apologist Justin Martyr develops the Stoic doctrine of God as the ''logos spermatikos'' more explicitly. Following Philo in identifying the divine ''logos'' with the ''logos spermatikos'', he believes that human reason is the seed sown by the divine sower.
)) 
</ref>
[[Athenagoras of Athens]] (((circa)) 133 – ((circa)) 190 CE), [[Tertullian]], [[Gregory of Nyssa]], [[Augustine of Hippo]] (354-430), [[Bonaventure]] (1221-1274), [[Albertus Magnus]] (((circa)) 1200 - 1280), and [[Roger Bacon]] (13th century). Contemporary [[theistic evolutionists]] look to this doctrine for inspiration on the consistency of Judeo-Christian creation with the modern [[Biological evolution | biological theory of evolution]].

==See also==
* [[History of evolutionary thought]]

==References==
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[[Category:Principles]]
[[Category:Metaphysics of religion]]
[[Category:Religious philosophical concepts]]

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