Tag: Transubstantiation
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Transubstantiation: What vs. How vs. Why
Take and eat the Body of Christ broken for you. Take and drink the Blood of Christ shed for you.
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Reading DW #5: Where Are We on the Eucharist?
Perhaps the most hopeful section of the document, the agreement on the Eucharist that has been reached by the dialogues over fifty years is nuanced, careful, and generous.
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Seven Theses on Current Discussions of the Doctrine of the Real Presence
A spiritually fruitful attitude toward various proposed explanations of the Real Presence, including contemporary ones, would be to draw inspiration from them all, though they are all inadequate.
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Transubstantiation and Aristotle. Warning: Heavy Philosophy
To claim that transubstantiation itself is conceptually independent of Greek philosophy seems both false and misguided, as if somehow the term transubstantiation were what is sacred and not Christ’s presence in the Eucharist.