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

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

One significant element of this was the belief in transubstantiation: the idea that the wine and holy wafer literally transformed into the blood and body of Christ at the moment of consumption.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020

Do you subscribe to this theory of artistic transubstantiation?

From The Guardian • Dec. 11, 2019

As a general proposition it may be stated that the distinction between the clergy and laity was reduced to a minimum, especially when transubstantiation was rejected.

From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I by Lea, Henry Charles