transubstantiation

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Meanwhile, in Germany, Martin Luther had questioned the Catholic doctrine of transubstantiation, the literal transformation of bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

He rejected the Catholic Church’s doctrine of transubstantiation.

From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022

When the Protestant reformers in the 16th century rejected the Catholic teaching that the bread and wine substantively became the body and blood of Jesus, Catholic Church leaders affirmed the teaching, called transubstantiation.

From New York Times • Jun. 26, 2021

Do you subscribe to this theory of artistic transubstantiation?

From The Guardian • Dec. 11, 2019

The Catholics presented the Anglicans with fourteen theses essential to union, in which the anti-Protestant doctrines were for the most part toned down, but transubstantiation distinctly asserted.

From Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 by Kurtz, J. H.