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
If the priest confined his sermons to “purely theological issues,” he might still be allowed to purchase airtime, but the doctrine of transubstantiation was never his preferred topic.
From Slate ● Jan. 21, 2021
Do you subscribe to this theory of artistic transubstantiation?
From The Guardian ● Dec. 11, 2019
"Then your venerability has been misinformed," cried Rollo, who thirsted for argument with the high ecclesiastic upon transubstantiation, consubstantiation, and all the other "ations" of his creed.
From The Firebrand by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett