Get Free Checker

transubstantiation

[ UK /tɹænsəbstˌænʃɪˈe‍ɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
  1. an act that changes the form or character or substance of something
  2. the Roman Catholic doctrine that the whole substance of the bread and the wine changes into the substance of the body and blood of Christ when consecrated in the Eucharist

How To Use transubstantiation In A Sentence

  • Thus, through a process must like Transubstantiation, it'll become simply divine.
  • Through transubstantiation, the bread and wine consumed by worshipers become the body and blood of Jesus when a priest, acting on Jesus’ behalf, speaks the words “This is my body” and “This is my blood” over them. Transubstantiation
  • And, while I'm at it, I think that it's ridiculous to believe in transubstantiation, that considering the Bible to be the literal word of God reduces that supposedly omnipotent being to a muddle-headed maniac and that the Hindu caste system and Roman Catholic rules against contraception could have been invented by Satan. If Britain decides to ban the burqa I might just start wearing one
  • Now, Luther, it is true, thought that transubstantiation as then taught by the Catholic Church referred to some kind of magic.
  • The embrace or denial of the doctrine of transubstantiation was the occasion for both killing and dying.
  • Christians by and large aren't being attacked because Catholics believe in the doctrine of transubstantiation or because some evangelicals believe in the Rapture.
  • We have relapsed into disputes about transubstantiation at the very moment when the discovery of the wide prevalence of theophagy as a tribal custom has deprived us of the last excuse for believing that our official religious rites differ in essentials from those of barbarians. The Revolutionist’s Handbook
  • Do we call this transmutation or transubstantiation?
  • The controversial doctrine of transubstantiation recognised the miraculous transformation of bread and wine into the actual body and blood of Christ during the Eucharist.
  • Calvin tried to work with a concept of mystical real presence that avoided the empirical absurdities of transubstantiation with regard to the Eucharist.
View all