Transubstantiation

Definition

transubstantiation / ' trænsǝb ' stænʃi'eÇʃn/ n [U] ( religion ) ပြဲေတာ္မုန္႔ႏွင့္ စပ်စ္ရည္တို႔သည္ အျမင္တြင္ အသြင္မေျပာင္းလဲ ေသာ္လည္း ခရစ္ေတာ္၏ အေသြးေတာ္ အသားေတာ္အျဖစ္သို႔ ေျပာင္းလဲသြားသည္ ဟူေသာ ယံုၾကည္ခ်က္။

Examples

1. ‘Those who had married were bitterly denounced
2. but their most serious offences were rejecting the supremacy of the pope and denying the doctrine of transubstantiation.’
3. ‘The words of institution effected a transubstantiation by which the bread and wine were converted into the very body and blood of Christ broken and spilled on the cross on Calvary.’
4. ‘Fully 85% believe that Jesus is God
5. 75% accept transubstantiation
6. and 60% believe that abortion is wrong.’
7. ‘Now
8. Luther
9. it is true
10. thought that transubstantiation as then taught by the Catholic Church referred to some kind of magic.’
11. ‘Calvin tried to work with a concept of mystical real presence that avoided the empirical absurdities of transubstantiation with regard to the Eucharist.’
12. ‘But this implied that the magisterium has never endorsed Aquinas's theory of transubstantiation - only the two conciliar definitions are Catholic doctrine.’
13. ‘In 1562 the Eucharist was discussed
14. and a doctrine of transubstantiation affirmed against all varieties of Reformation Eucharistic theology.’
15. ‘In so doing
16. transubstantiation - the actual transformation of bread and wine into the body and blood of Jesus Christ - is made possible.’
17. ‘In the twentieth century
18. some modernist Roman Catholic theologians sought to interpret transubstantiation as only a change of meaning and not a change of substance.’
19. ‘The doctrine of transubstantiation is based
20. in part
21. on the writings of Aristotle and Aquinas
22. who hold that material bodies are composed of accidents and substance.’
23. ‘The embrace or denial of the doctrine of transubstantiation was the occasion for both killing and dying.’
24. ‘For some reason the Roman Catholic belief in transubstantiation came up.’
25. ‘The controversial doctrine of transubstantiation recognised the miraculous transformation of bread and wine into the actual body and blood of Christ during the Eucharist.’
26. ‘According to the ritual of Communion established during the late twelfth century
27. it is the gesture of elevation that marks the moment of the Eucharist's transubstantiation.’
28. ‘Christians by and large aren't being attacked because Catholics believe in the doctrine of transubstantiation or because some evangelicals believe in the Rapture.’
29. ‘But then he talks about the Eucharist and transubstantiation and sounds very serious and almost reverential.’
30. ‘Everyone knew the IRA were Catholics
31. and that little as the average IRA man cared about transubstantiation
32. Catholicism was a defining part of the terrorists' identity.’
33. ‘In the Roman Catholic church
34. as I understand it
35. transubstantiation means that the bread is literally the body of Christ
36. and the wine is literally the blood of Christ
37. as you ingest it.’
38. ‘I have yet to meet a Catholic who believes in transubstantiation
39. i.e. that in the mass the bread and wine actually become the body and blood of Christ.’
40. ‘But it seems that his belief is not an act of faith in the same sense that it is an act of faith to belief in the Incarnation
41. the Trinity
42. transubstantiation
43. or the Virgin Birth.’