transubstantiation
IPA: trænsʌbstˈæntʃiˈeɪʃʌn
noun
- (Roman Catholicism) The doctrine holding that the bread and wine of the Eucharist are essentially transformed into the body and blood of Jesus.
- (by extension) Conversion of one substance into another.
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Examples of "transubstantiation" in Sentences
- After approving the term transubstantiation, he adds [599],
- 6 Hooker will use the term transubstantiation provided it is understood that it is something that happens to us and not the elements.
- This was in opposition to the Protestants, who maintained that the term transubstantiation ought to be rejected on account of its novelty.
- After approving the term transubstantiation, he adds [599], "And because what is spiritual among the Jews is called real, the terms really, substantially, and essentially, are used in the Protestant Confessions, and by their
- Thus Grotius was persuaded the term transubstantiation, adopted by the Council of Trent, was capable of a good interpretation [598]: but it is not clear however, that, though he admitted the expressions used by the Catholic Church, he was of her opinion.
- Though the Council was emphatic about its realism and its use of the term transubstantiation with regards to a real objective conversion of the bread and wine into the Body and Blood of Christ, it was not language that implied any sort of materialistic view of the presence of Christ in the Eucharist.
- (a) The scientific development of the concept of Transubstantiation can hardly be said to be a product of the Greeks, who did not get beyond its more general notes; rather, it is the remarkable contribution of the Latin theologians, who were stimulated to work it out in complete logical form by the three Eucharistic controversies mentioned above, The term transubstantiation seems to have been first used by Hildebert of Tours (about 1079).
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