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transubstantiation
noun
Conversion of one substance into another.
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Conservative Catholics and conservative Protestants may disagree on papal infallibility and transubstantiation, but they share a common enemy.
Britain plans to balance its budget by 2017, and so does France.Despite the small differences in outcome, economists will continue to debate the merits of the competing systems as vigorously as Reformation clerics debated the difference between transubstantiation and consubstantiation.
The Duke of Norfolk, an Irish itinerant, a Marxist priest in Latin America, an African exorciser and an Untouchable worshipper in a Catholic ashram may not be natural bed-fellows, but they all accept the truth of transubstantiation and acknowledge the authority of Rome.
As Egypt creeps towards democracy, we look at what the revolution might mean for its womenBook transubstantiation A service for transcribing print into bits is a boon for all those who find it hard to let go of musty tomes but are running out of shelf space.
Jessamyn West, a library-technology advocate and editor at the popular community discussion site MetaFilter, calls it "the transubstantiation of the printed word".
Most notably, he rejected the then-current view of transubstantiation credited to the 9th-century abbot of Corbie, St. Paschasius Radbertus, who professed that the bread and wine, after consecration in the mass, became the real body and blood of Christ.
After the doctrine of transubstantiation was rejected during the Reformation, the festival was suppressed in Protestant churches.
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In 1545 he had composed a litany for the Reformed church in England, one of his masterpieces, still in use; and by 1538 he had abandoned the traditional Roman Catholic belief in transubstantiation that Christ is rendered substantially present by the Eucharist (although the properties of bread and wine remain the same)—but retained his belief in the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist.
He denied the doctrine of transubstantiation that Christ's natural body is present in the bread of the Eucharist after consecration.
But his chief target was the doctrine of transubstantiation that the substance of the bread and wine used in the Eucharist is changed into the body and blood of Christ.
St. Thomas's explanation of this process, called 'transubstantiation', was that the substance of the bread (and wine) was changed into the body (and blood) of Christ, whereas its quantity, through which the substance of the bread received physical extension and the other accidental forms, was now the entity that kept the other accidental forms physically in being.
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