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
The council also affirmed the doctrine of transubstantiation.
From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022
Do you subscribe to this theory of artistic transubstantiation?
From The Guardian • Dec. 11, 2019
Simultaneously, he suggests, those gadgets promise something greater, a kind of reverse transubstantiation that will put us in touch with the immaterial “philosophy” of Apple’s co-founder.
From Slate • Jan. 30, 2018
In 1381 he published at Oxford his twelve "conclusions," in which he appears for the first time to have questioned the doctrine of transubstantiation.
From Cabinet Portrait Gallery of British Worthies Volume I by Anonymous