Transubstantiation
Transubstantiation (Latin: transsubstantiatio; Greek: μετουσίωσις metousiosis) is, according to the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church, the change of substance or essence by which the bread and wine offered in the sacrifice of the sacrament of the Eucharist
Eucharist during the Mass, become, in reality, the body and blood of Jesus
Jesus Christ. The Roman Catholic Church
Roman Catholic Church teaches that in the Eucharistic offering bread and wine are changed into the body and blood of Christ.[1] The reaffirmation of this doctrine was expressed, using the word "transubstantiate", by the Fourth Council of the Lateran
Fourth Council of the Lateran in 1215.[2][3] It was later challenged by various 14th century reformers— John Wycliffe
John Wycliffe in particular.[4] The manner in which the change occurs, the Roman Catholic Church teaches, is a mystery: "The signs of bread and wine become, in a way surpassing understanding, the Body and Blood of Christ."[5]:1333 The precise terminology to be used to refer to the nature of the Eucharist and its theological implications has a contentious history, especially in the Protestant Reformation.[6] In the Greek Orthodox Church, the doctrine has been discussed under the term of metousiosis, coined as a direct loan-translation of transsubstantiatio in the 17th century. In Eastern Orthodoxy
Eastern Orthodoxy in general, the Sacred Mystery (Sacrament) of the Eucharist
Eucharist is more commonly discussed using alternative terms such as "trans-elementation" (μεταστοιχείωσις, metastoicheiosis), "re-ordination" (μεταρρύθμισις, metarrhythmisis), or simply "change" (μεταβολή, metabole).

Contents

1 History

1.1 Patristic period 1.2 Middle Ages 1.3 Reformation

1.3.1 Council of Trent

2 Theology

2.1 Roman Catholic Church 2.2 In late Medieval Orthodox - Catholic debates 2.3 Eastern Christianity 2.4 Protestantism

2.4.1 Anglicanism 2.4.2 Lutheranism 2.4.3 Reformed churches 2.4.4 Methodism

3 See also 4 References 5 External links

History[edit] Patristic period[edit]

A 3rd-century fresco in the Catacomb of Callixtus, interpreted by the archaeologist Joseph Wilpert as showing on the left Jesus
Jesus multiplying bread and fish, a symbol of the Eucharistic consecration, and on the right a representation of the deceased, who through participation in the Eucharist
Eucharist has obtained eternal happiness[7]

The belief that the bread and wine that form the matter of the Eucharist
Eucharist become the body and blood of Christ appears to have been widespread from an early date, with early Christian writers referring to them as his body and the blood. They speak of them as the same flesh and blood which suffered and died on the cross.[8][9] The short document known as the Teaching of the Apostles or Didache, which may be the earliest Christian document outside of the New Testament to speak of the Eucharist, says, "Let no one eat or drink of your Eucharist, unless they have been baptized into the name of the Lord; for concerning this also the Lord has said, 'Give not that which is holy to the dogs'."[10] A letter by Saint
Saint Ignatius of Antioch
Ignatius of Antioch to the Romans, written in about AD 106 says: "I desire the bread of God, the heavenly bread, the bread of life, which is the flesh of Jesus
Jesus Christ, the Son of God, who became afterwards of the seed of David and Abraham; and I desire the drink of God, namely His blood, which is incorruptible love and eternal life."[11] Writing to the Christians of Smyrna in the same year, he warned them to "stand aloof from such heretics", because, among other reasons, "they abstain from the Eucharist
Eucharist and from prayer, because they confess not the Eucharist
Eucharist to be the flesh of our Saviour Jesus
Jesus Christ, which suffered for our sins, and which the Father, of His goodness, raised up again."[8] In about 150, Justin Martyr, referring to the Eucharist, wrote: "Not as common bread and common drink do we receive these; but in like manner as Jesus
Jesus Christ our Savior, having been made flesh by the Word of God, had both flesh and blood for our salvation, so likewise have we been taught that the food which is blessed by the prayer of His word, and from which our blood and flesh by transmutation are nourished, is the flesh and blood of that Jesus
Jesus who was made flesh."[12] Justin Martyr
Justin Martyr wrote, in the Dialogue with Trypho, ch 70: "Now it is evident, that in this prophecy [allusion is made] to the bread which our Christ gave us to eat, in remembrance of His being made flesh for the sake of His believers, for whom also He suffered; and to the cup which He gave us to drink, in remembrance of His own blood, with giving of thanks."[13] In about 200 AD, Tertullian
Tertullian wrote: "Having taken the bread and given it to His disciples, He made it His own body, by saying, This is my body, that is, the figure of my body. A figure, however, there could not have been, unless there were first a veritable body. An empty thing, or phantom, is incapable of a figure. If, however, (as Marcion might say) He pretended the bread was His body, because He lacked the truth of bodily substance, it follows that He must have given bread for us."[14] The Apostolic Constitutions
Apostolic Constitutions (compiled c. 380) says: "Let the bishop give the oblation, saying, The body of Christ; and let him that receiveth say, Amen. And let the deacon take the cup; and when he gives it, say, The blood of Christ, the cup of life; and let him that drinketh say, Amen."[15] Saint
Saint Ambrose
Ambrose of Milan (d. 397) wrote:

Perhaps you will say, "I see something else, how is it that you assert that I receive the Body of Christ?" ... Let us prove that this is not what nature made, but what the blessing consecrated, and the power of blessing is greater than that of nature, because by blessing nature itself is changed. ... For that sacrament which you receive is made what it is by the word of Christ. But if the word of Elijah had such power as to bring down fire from heaven, shall not the word of Christ have power to change the nature of the elements? ... Why do you seek the order of nature in the Body of Christ, seeing that the Lord Jesus Himself was born of a Virgin, not according to nature? It is the true Flesh of Christ which was crucified and buried, this is then truly the Sacrament
Sacrament of His Body. The Lord Jesus
Jesus Himself proclaims: "This Is My Body." Before the blessing of the heavenly words another nature is spoken of, after the consecration the Body is signified. He Himself speaks of His Blood. Before the consecration it has another name, after it is called Blood. And you say, Amen, that is, It is true. Let the heart within confess what the mouth utters, let the soul feel what the voice speaks."[9]

Other fourth-century Christian writers say that in the Eucharist
Eucharist there occurs a "change",[16] "transelementation",[17] "transformation",[18] "transposing",[19] "alteration"[20] of the bread into the body of Christ. In AD 400, Augustine
Augustine quotes Cyprian
Cyprian (AD 200): "For as Christ says 'I am the true vine,' it follows that the blood of Christ is wine, not water; and the cup cannot appear to contain His blood by which we are redeemed and quickened, if the wine be absent; for by the wine is the blood of Christ typified, ..."[21] Middle Ages[edit]

The Last Supper
Last Supper (upper image) and preparatory washing of feet (lower image) in a 1220 manuscript in the Badische Landesbibliothek

The doctrine of transubstantiation is the result of a theological dispute started in the 11th century, when Berengar of Tours
Berengar of Tours denied that any material change in the elements was needed to explain the Eucharistic Presence, thereby provoking a considerable stir.[22] Berengar's position was never diametrically opposed to that of his critics, and he was probably never excommunicated, but the controversies that he aroused (see Stercoranism) forced people to clarify the doctrine of the Eucharist.[23] The earliest known use of the term "transubstantiation" to describe the change from bread and wine to body and blood of Christ in the Eucharist
Eucharist was by Hildebert de Lavardin, Archbishop of Tours, in the 11th century.[24] By the end of the 12th century the term was in widespread use.[22] The Fourth Council of the Lateran
Fourth Council of the Lateran in 1215 spoke of the bread and wine as "transubstantiated" into the body and blood of Christ: "His body and blood are truly contained in the sacrament of the altar under the forms of bread and wine, the bread and wine having been transubstantiated, by God's power, into his body and blood".[25] It was only later in the 13th century that Aristotelian metaphysics was accepted and a philosophical elaboration in line with that metaphysics was developed, which found classic formulation in the teaching of Thomas Aquinas."[22] Reformation[edit] During the Protestant Reformation, the doctrine of transubstantiation was heavily criticised as an Aristotelian "pseudophilosophy"[26] imported into Christian teaching and jettisoned in favor of Martin Luther's doctrine of sacramental union, or in favor, per Huldrych Zwingli, of the Eucharist
Eucharist as memorial.[27]

Title page of Martin Luther's De Captivitate Babylonica Ecclesiae

In the Protestant Reformation, the doctrine of transubstantiation became a matter of much controversy. Martin Luther
Martin Luther held that "It is not the doctrine of transubstantiation which is to be believed, but simply that Christ really is present at the Eucharist".[28] In his "On the Babylonian Captivity of the Church" (published on 6 October 1520) Luther wrote:

Therefore, it is an absurd and unheard-of juggling with words, to understand "bread" to mean "the form, or accidents of bread," and "wine" to mean "the form, or accidents of wine." Why do they not also understand all other things to mean their forms, or accidents? Even if this might be done with all other things, it would yet not be right thus to emasculate the words of God and arbitrarily to empty them of their meaning.

Moreover, the Church had the true faith for more than twelve hundred years, during which time the holy Fathers never once mentioned this transubstantiation — certainly, a monstrous word for a monstrous idea — until the pseudo-philosophy of Aristotle
Aristotle became rampant in the Church these last three hundred years. During these centuries many other things have been wrongly defined, for example, that the Divine essence neither is begotten nor begets, that the soul is the substantial form of the human body, and the like assertions, which are made without reason or sense, as the Cardinal of Cambray himself admits.[29]

In his 1528 Confession Concerning Christ's Supper he wrote:

Why then should we not much more say in the Supper, "This is my body", even though bread and body are two distinct substances, and the word "this" indicates the bread? Here, too, out of two kinds of objects a union has taken place, which I shall call a "sacramental union", because Christ's body and the bread are given to us as a sacrament. This is not a natural or personal union, as is the case with God and Christ. It is also perhaps a different union from that which the dove has with the Holy Spirit, and the flame with the angel, but it is also assuredly a sacramental union.[30]

What Luther thus called a "sacramental union" is often erroneously called consubstantiation by non-Lutherans. In "On the Babylonian Captivity", Luther upheld belief in the Real Presence of Jesus
Jesus and, in his 1523 treatise The Adoration of the Sacrament, defended adoration of the body and blood of Christ in the Eucharist. Huldrych Zwingli
Huldrych Zwingli taught that the sacrament is purely symbolic and memorial in character, arguing that this was the meaning of Jesus' instruction: "Do this in remembrance of me".[31] King Henry VIII
Henry VIII of England, though breaking with the Pope, kept many essentials of Catholic doctrine, including Transubstantiation. This was enshrined in the Six Articles of 1539, and the death penalty specifically prescribed for any who denied Transubstantiation. This was changed under Elizabeth I. In the 39 articles of 1563, the Church of England
Church of England declared: " Transubstantiation
Transubstantiation (or the change of the substance of Bread and Wine) in the Supper of the Lord, cannot be proved by holy Writ; but is repugnant to the plain words of Scripture, overthroweth the nature of a Sacrament, and hath given occasion to many superstitions";[32] and made Mass illegal.[33] For a century and half - 1672 to 1828 - Transubstantiation
Transubstantiation had an important role, in a negative way, in British political and social life. Under the Test Act, the holding of any public office was made conditional upon explicitly adjuring Transubstantiation. Any aspirant to public office had to repeat the formula set out by the law: I, N, do declare that I do believe that there is not any transubstantiation in the sacrament of the Lord's Supper, or in the elements of the bread and wine, at or after the consecration thereof by any person whatsoever. Council of Trent[edit] In 1551, the Council of Trent
Council of Trent confirmed the doctrine of transubstantiation as Catholic dogma, stating that "by the consecration of the bread and wine there takes place a change of the whole substance of the bread into the substance of the body of Christ our Lord and of the whole substance of the wine into the substance of his blood. This change the holy Catholic Church
Catholic Church has fittingly and properly called transubstantiation."[34] In its 13th session ending 11 October 1551, the Council defined transubstantiation as "that wonderful and singular conversion of the whole substance of the bread into the Body, and of the whole substance of the wine into the Blood – the species only of the bread and wine remaining – which conversion indeed the Catholic Church
Catholic Church most aptly calls Transubstantiation".[34] This council officially approved use of the term "transubstantiation" to express the Catholic Church's teaching on the subject of the conversion of the bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ in the Eucharist, with the aim of safeguarding Christ's presence as a literal truth, while emphasizing the fact that there is no change in the empirical appearances of the bread and wine.[35] It did not however impose the Aristotelian theory of substance and accidents: it spoke only of the species (the appearances), not the philosophical term "accidents", and the word "substance" was in ecclesiastical use for many centuries before Aristotelian philosophy
Aristotelian philosophy was adopted in the West,[36] as shown for instance by its use in the Nicene Creed
Nicene Creed which speaks of Christ having the same "οὐσία" (Greek) or "substantia" (Latin) as the Father. Theology[edit] Further information: Eucharistic theology
Eucharistic theology and Real presence Roman Catholic Church[edit] Further information: Substance theory

The Disputation of the Holy Sacrament
Sacrament ( Raphael
Raphael 1509-1510) depicts theologians debating Transubstantiation, including four Doctors of the Church, with Pope Gregory I
Pope Gregory I and Jerome
Jerome seated to the left of the altar and Augustine
Augustine and Ambrose
Ambrose to the right, Pope Julius II, Pope Sixtus IV, Savonarola
Savonarola and Dante Alighieri.[37]

While the Catholic doctrine of transubstantiation in relation to the Eucharist
Eucharist can be viewed in terms of the Aristotelian distinction between substance and accident, Catholic theologians generally hold that, "in referring to the Eucharist, the Church does not use the terms substance and accident in their philosophical contexts but in the common and ordinary sense in which they were first used many centuries ago. The dogma of transubstantiation does not embrace any philosophical theory in particular."[38] This ambiguity is recognized also by a Lutheran theologian such as Jaroslav Pelikan, who, while himself interpreting the terms as Aristotelian, states that "the application of the term 'substance' to the discussion of the Eucharistic presence antedates the rediscovery of Aristotle. [...] Even 'transubstantiation' was used during the twelfth century in a nontechnical sense. Such evidence lends credence to the argument that the doctrine of transubstantiation, as codified by the decrees of the Fourth Lateran and Tridentine councils, did not canonize Aristotelian philosophy as indispensable to Christian doctrine. But whether it did so or not in principle, it has certainly done so in effect".[39] The view that the distinction is independent of any philosophical theory has been expressed as follows: "The distinction between substance and accidents is real, not just imaginary. In the case of the person, the distinction between the person and his or her accidental features is after all real. Therefore, even though the notion of substance and accidents originated from Aristotelian philosophy, the distinction between substance and accidents is also independent of philosophical and scientific development."[40] "Substance" here means what something is in itself: A hat's shape is not the hat itself, nor is its colour, size, softness to the touch, nor anything else about it perceptible to the senses. The hat itself (the "substance") has the shape, the color, the size, the softness and the other appearances, but is distinct from them. While the appearances are perceptible to the senses, the substance is not.[41] The philosophical term "accidents" does not appear in the teaching of the Council of Trent
Council of Trent on transubstantiation, which is repeated in the Vatican-approved Catechism of the Catholic Church
Catechism of the Catholic Church (at the only point in which the latter uses the word "transubstantiation"). For what the Council distinguishes from the "substance" of the bread and wine it uses the term species:

The Council of Trent
Council of Trent summarizes the Catholic faith by declaring: "Because Christ our Redeemer said that it was truly his body that he was offering under the species of bread, it has always been the conviction of the Church of God, and this holy Council now declares again, that by the consecration of the bread and wine there takes place a change of the whole substance of the bread into the substance of the body of Christ our Lord and of the whole substance of the wine into the substance of his blood. This change the holy Catholic Church has fittingly and properly called transubstantiation."[42]

The Catechism of the Catholic Church
Catechism of the Catholic Church cites the Council of Trent
Council of Trent also in regard to the mode of the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist:

The mode of Christ's presence under the Eucharistic species is unique. It raises the Eucharist
Eucharist above all the sacraments as "the perfection of the spiritual life and the end to which all the sacraments tend." (St. Thomas Aquinas, STh III, 73, 3c.) In the most blessed sacrament of the Eucharist
Eucharist "the body and blood, together with the soul and divinity, of our Lord Jesus
Jesus Christ and, therefore, the whole Christ is truly, really, and substantially contained." ( Council of Trent
Council of Trent (1551): DS 1651) "This presence is called 'real' - by which is not intended to exclude the other types of presence as if they could not be 'real' too, but because it is presence in the fullest sense: that is to say, it is a substantial presence by which Christ, God and man, makes himself wholly and entirely present." (Paul VI, MF 39).[43]:1374

The Catholic Church
Catholic Church holds that the same change of the substance of the bread and of the wine at the Last Supper
Last Supper continues to occur at the consecration of the Eucharist[43]:1377[44] when the words are spoken in persona Christi "This is my body ... this is my blood." In Orthodox confessions, the change is said to start during the Dominical or Lord's Words or Institution Narrative and be completed during the Epiklesis.[45] Teaching that Christ is risen from the dead and is alive, the Catholic Church holds that when the bread is changed into his body, not only his body is present, but Christ as a whole is present (i.e. body and blood, soul and divinity.) The same holds for the wine changed into his blood.[46] This teaching goes beyond the doctrine of transubstantiation, which directly concerns only the change of the substance of the bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ. In accordance with the dogmatic teaching that Christ is really, truly and substantially present under the remaining appearances of bread and wine, and continues to be present as long as those appearances remain, the Catholic Church
Catholic Church preserves the consecrated elements, generally in a church tabernacle, for administering Holy Communion
Holy Communion to the sick and dying, and also for the secondary, but still highly prized, purpose of adoring Christ present in the Eucharist. The Roman Catholic Church
Roman Catholic Church declares that the doctrine of transubstantiation is concerned with what is changed, and not how the change occurs; it teaches that the appearances (the "species") that remain are real, not an illusion, and that Christ is "really, truly, and substantially present" in the Eucharist.[43]:1374 To touch the smallest particle of the host or the smallest droplet from the chalice is to touch Jesus
Jesus Christ himself, as when one person touches another on the back of the hand with only a fingertip and in so doing touches not merely a few skin cells but touches the whole person: "Christ is present whole and entire in each of the species and whole and entire in each of their parts, in such a way that the breaking of the bread does not divide Christ."[47] In the arguments which characterised the relationship between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism in the 16th century, the Council of Trent declared subject to the ecclesiastical penalty of anathema anyone who:

"denieth, that, in the sacrament of the most holy Eucharist, are contained truly, really, and substantially, the body and blood together with the soul and divinity of our Lord Jesus
Jesus Christ, and consequently the whole Christ; but saith that He is only therein as in a sign, or in figure, or virtue" and anyone who "saith, that, in the sacred and holy sacrament of the Eucharist, the substance of the bread and wine remains conjointly with the body and blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, and denieth that wonderful and singular conversion of the whole substance of the bread into the Body, and of the whole substance of the wine into the Blood - the species only of the bread and wine remaining - which conversion indeed the Catholic Church
Catholic Church most aptly calls Transubstantiation, let him be anathema."[34]

As already stated, the Roman Catholic Church
Roman Catholic Church asserts that the "species" that remain are real. In the sacrament these are the signs of the reality that they efficaciously signify,[48] not symbols. And by definition sacraments are "efficacious signs of grace, instituted by Christ and entrusted to the Catholic Church, by which divine life is dispensed to us."[49] In The Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist: The Eucharist
Eucharist and Its Effects (2000-2012), James H. Dobbins, citing the work This Tremendous Lover (1989), by Dom Eugene Boylan,[50] expresses the paradox of Holy Communion:

"Ordinary food is consumed and becomes that which consumes it. In the Eucharist, we consume God and become that which we consume."[51]

According to Catholic teaching, the whole of Christ, body and blood, soul and divinity, is in the sacrament, under each of the appearances of bread and wine and in each part of the appearances of bread and wine (since the substance of bread or wine is in each part of ordinary bread or wine, and the substance of Christ is in each part of the consecrated and transubstantiated elements of the host and the cup of the sacrament), but he is not in the sacrament as in a place and is not moved when the sacrament is moved. He is perceptible neither by the sense nor by the imagination, but only by the intellectual eye.[52] St. Thomas Aquinas
Thomas Aquinas gave poetic expression to this perception in the devotional hymn Adoro te devote:

Godhead here in hiding, whom I do adore, Masked by these bare shadows, shape and nothing more, See, Lord, at thy service low lies here a heart Lost, all lost in wonder at the God thou art.

Seeing, touching, tasting are in thee deceived: How says trusty hearing? that shall be believed. What God's Son has told me, take for truth I do; Truth
Truth himself speaks truly or there's nothing true.

—English translation of Adoro Te Devote

An official statement from the Anglican–Roman Catholic International Commission titled Eucharistic Doctrine, published in 1971, states that 'the word transubstantiation is commonly used in the Roman Catholic Church to indicate that God acting in the Eucharist
Eucharist effects a change in the inner reality of the elements. The term should be seen as affirming the fact of Christ's presence and of the mysterious and radical change which takes places. In contemporary Roman Catholic theology it is not understood as explaining how the change takes place'.[53] In late Medieval Orthodox - Catholic debates[edit]

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From the period of the Dominican-Orthodox controversies witnessed by the Fourteenth Century theologian Nicholas Kabasilas
Nicholas Kabasilas until the Council of Florence and the "libellus (booklet)" of Mark of Ephesus, the Orthodox Church took the position of "a double moment of consecration" at the words "This is my body/blood" and the epiclesis (i.e. the part of the Anaphora (Eucharistic Prayer) by which the priest invokes the Holy Spirit
Holy Spirit (or the power of His blessing) upon the Eucharistic bread and wine.[54] John Torquemada
John Torquemada opposed the Orthodox position at the Council of Florence - despite this Orthodox position being a normative interpretation of the De sacramentis and De mysteriis of St. Ambrose. This was all the more ironic since Torquemada cited Paschasius Radbertus (who himself had claimed to quote Augustine) in his Sermo alter in the Acta Latina, in order to refute the Roman Emperor John VIII Palaiologos (who was relying on Mark of Ephesus' "libellus"). The end result was that, though Western theologians from Radbertus until St. Bonaventure of Bagnoregio
St. Bonaventure of Bagnoregio had held for the consecratory potential of the epiclesis, Torquemada represented the Dominican position as if it was universal and non-controversial among the Latins. In fact, Torquemada's overconfidence was the result of having studied the works of Pope Benedict XII
Pope Benedict XII in his debates against Mark of Ephesus at Ferrara in 1437. In these debates, Benedict had condemned an alleged Armenian theory (never verified among any of the dozen or so Armenian commentaries from the period) that denied all consecratory value to the words of institution and confined the consecration ONLY to the epiclesis (which was not the Byzantine position). Lastly, the Armenians were alleged to hold that the eucharistic change was not substantial and only imperfect and typological, and therefore not transubstantiation. The arguments, that Benedict XII's letter to the missionaries (c. 1340) addressed, relied on Aquinas' premises - which was no surprise given Benedict and Pope Clement VI
Pope Clement VI Thomist
Thomist preferences. However, the position which he attributed to the Orthodox was confused for the actual Byzantine position expressed from Kabasilas to the Council of Florence. This has led to a gross misunderstanding, still evident also among modern and contemporary scholars when attempting to speak of Theological differences between the Catholic Church
Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church. Eastern Christianity[edit]

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Main article: Metousiosis As the Disputation of the Holy Sacrament
Sacrament took place in the Western Church after the Great Schism, the Eastern Churches remained largely unaffected by it. The debate on the nature of "transubstantiation" in Greek Orthodoxy begins in the 17th century, with Cyril Lucaris, whose The Eastern Confession of the Orthodox Faith was published in Latin in 1629. The Greek term metousiosis (μετουσίωσις) is first used as the translation of Latin transubstantiatio in the Greek edition of the work, published in 1633. The Eastern Catholic, Oriental Orthodox and Eastern Orthodox Churches, along with the Assyrian Church of the East, agree that in a valid Divine Liturgy
Divine Liturgy bread and wine truly and actually become the body and blood of Christ. In Orthodox confessions, the change is said to start during the Liturgy of Preparation
Liturgy of Preparation and be completed during the Epiklesis. However, there are official church documents that speak of a "change" (in Greek μεταβολή) or "metousiosis" (μετουσίωσις) of the bread and wine. "Μετ-ουσί-ωσις" (met-ousi-osis) is the Greek word used to represent the Latin word "trans-substanti-atio",[55][56] as Greek "μετα-μόρφ-ωσις" (meta-morph-osis) corresponds to Latin "trans-figur-atio". Examples of official documents of the Eastern Orthodox Church that use the term "μετουσίωσις" or "transubstantiation" are the Longer Catechism of The Orthodox, Catholic, Eastern Church (question 340) and the declaration by the Eastern Orthodox Synod of Jerusalem
Synod of Jerusalem of 1672:

"In the celebration of [the Eucharist] we believe the Lord Jesus Christ to be present. He is not present typically, nor figuratively, nor by superabundant grace, as in the other Mysteries, nor by a bare presence, as some of the Fathers have said concerning Baptism, or by impanation, so that the Divinity of the Word is united to the set forth bread of the Eucharist
Eucharist hypostatically, as the followers of Luther most ignorantly and wretchedly suppose. But [he is present] truly and really, so that after the consecration of the bread and of the wine, the bread is transmuted, transubstantiated, converted and transformed into the true Body Itself of the Lord, Which was born in Bethlehem of the ever-Virgin, was baptized in the Jordan, suffered, was buried, rose again, was received up, sits at the right hand of the God and Father, and is to come again in the clouds of Heaven; and the wine is converted and transubstantiated into the true Blood Itself of the Lord, Which as He hung upon the Cross, was poured out for the life of the world.[57]

It should be noted, that the way in which the bread and wine become the body and blood of Christ has never been dogmatically defined by the Eastern Orthodox Churches. However, St Theodore the Studite writes in his treatise On the Holy Icons: "for we confess that the faithful receive the very body and blood of Christ, according to the voice of God himself."[58] This was a refutation of the iconoclasts, who insisted that the eucharist was the only true icon of Christ. Thus, it can be argued that by being part of the dogmatic "horos" against the iconoclast heresy, the teaching on the "real presence" of Christ in the eucharist is indeed a dogma of the Eastern Orthodox Church. Protestantism[edit] Anglicanism[edit] Official writings of the churches of the Anglican Communion
Anglican Communion have consistently affirmed Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist, a term that includes a belief in the corporeal presence, the sacramental union, as well as several other eucharistic theologies. Elizabeth I, as part of the Elizabethan Religious Settlement, gave royal assent to the Thirty-Nine Articles
Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion, which sought to distinguish Anglican from Roman Church doctrine. The Articles declared that " Transubstantiation
Transubstantiation (or the change of the substance of Bread and Wine) in the Supper of the Lord, cannot be proved by holy Writ; but is repugnant to the plain words of Scripture, overthroweth the nature of a Sacrament, and hath given occasion to many superstitions." The Elizabethan Settlement accepted the Real Presence of Christ in the Sacrament, but refused to define it, preferring to leave it a mystery. Indeed, for many years it was illegal in Britain to hold public office whilst believing in transubstantiation, as under the Test Act
Test Act of 1673. Archbishop John Tillotson
John Tillotson decried the "real barbarousness of this Sacrament
Sacrament and Rite of our Religion", considering it a great impiety to believe that people who attend Holy Communion
Holy Communion "verily eat and drink the natural flesh and blood of Christ. And what can any man do more unworthily towards a Friend? How can he possibly use him more barbarously, than to feast upon his living flesh and blood?" (Discourse against Transubstantiation, London 1684, 35). In the Church of England today, clergy are required to assent that the 39 Articles have borne witness to the Christian faith.[59] Anglicans generally consider no teaching binding that, according to the Articles, "cannot be found in Holy Scripture or proved thereby", and are not unanimous in the interpretation of such passages as John, Chapter 6, and 1 Corinthians 11, although all Anglicans affirm a view of the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist: some Anglicans (especially Anglo-Catholics
Anglo-Catholics and some other High Church
High Church Anglicans) hold to a belief in the corporeal presence while Evangelical Anglicans hold to a belief in the pneumatic presence. As with all Anglicans, Anglo-Catholics
Anglo-Catholics and other High Church
High Church Anglicans historically held belief in the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist
Eucharist but were "hostile to the doctrine of transubstantiation".[60][61] However, in the first half of the twentieth century, the Catholic Propaganda Society upheld both Article XXVIII and the doctrine of transubstantiation, stating that the 39 Articles specifically condemn a pre- Council of Trent
Council of Trent "interpretation which was included by some under the term Transubstantiation" in which "the bread and wine were only left as a delusion of the senses after consecration";[62] it stated that "this Council propounded its definition after the Articles were written, and so cannot be referred to by them".[62] Theological dialogue with the Roman Catholic Church
Roman Catholic Church has produced common documents that speak of "substantial agreement" about the doctrine of the Eucharist: the ARCIC Windsor Statement of 1971,[63] and its 1979 Elucidation.[64] Remaining arguments can be found in the Church of England's pastoral letter: The Eucharist: Sacrament
Sacrament of Unity.[65] Lutheranism[edit] Lutherans explicitly reject transubstantiation[66] believing that the bread and wine remain fully bread and fully wine while also being truly the body and blood of Jesus
Jesus Christ.[67][68][69][70] Lutheran churches instead emphasize the sacramental union[71] (not exactly the consubstantiation, as is often claimed)[72] and believe that within the Eucharistic celebration the body and blood of Jesus
Jesus Christ are objectively present "in, with, and under the forms" of bread and wine (cf. Book of Concord).[67] They place great stress on Jesus' instructions to "take and eat", and "take and drink", holding that this is the proper, divinely ordained use of the sacrament, and, while giving it due reverence, scrupulously avoid any actions that might indicate or lead to superstition or unworthy fear of the sacrament.[68] Reformed churches[edit] Classical Presbyterianism
Presbyterianism held Calvin's view of "pneumatic presence" or "spiritual feeding", a real presence by the Spirit for those who have faith. John Calvin
John Calvin "can be regarded as occupying a position roughly midway between" the doctrines of Martin Luther
Martin Luther on one hand and Huldrych Zwingli
Huldrych Zwingli on the other. He taught that "the thing that is signified is effected by its sign", declaring: "Believers ought always to live by this rule: whenever they see symbols appointed by the Lord, to think and be convinced that the truth of the thing signified is surely present there. For why should the Lord put in your hand the symbol of his body, unless it was to assure you that you really participate in it? And if it is true that a visible sign is given to us to seal the gift of an invisible thing, when we have received the symbol of the body, let us rest assured that the body itself is also given to us."[73] He quoted Augustine
Augustine in his harmony of the Synoptic Gospels on Mark 14:22-25, "Judas ate bread with the Lord, but did not eat the Lord with the bread."[citation needed] The Westminster Shorter Catechism summarises the teaching:

Q. What is the Lord's supper? A. The Lord's supper is a sacrament, wherein, by giving and receiving bread and wine according to Christ's appointment, his death is showed forth; and the worthy receivers are, not after a corporal and carnal manner, but by faith, made partakers of his body and blood, with all his benefits, to their spiritual nourishment and growth in grace.[74]

Methodism[edit] Methodists
Methodists believe in the real presence of Christ in the bread and wine (or grape juice) while, like Anglicans and Lutherans, rejecting transubstantiation. According to the United Methodist Church, "Jesus Christ, who 'is the reflection of God's glory and the exact imprint of God's very being' (Hebrews 1:3), is truly present in Holy Communion."[75] While upholding the view that scripture is the primary source of Church practice, Methodists
Methodists also look to church tradition and base their beliefs on the early Church teachings on the Eucharist, that Christ has a real presence in the Lord's Supper. The Catechism for the use of the people called Methodists
Methodists thus states that, "[in Holy Communion] Jesus
Jesus Christ is present with his worshipping people and gives himself to them as their Lord and Saviour".[76] See also[edit]

Eucharistic miracle Host desecration Memorialism Mysterium fidei (encyclical) New Covenant Nominalism Transignification

References[edit]

Notes

^ Fay, William (2001). "The Real Presence of Jesus
Jesus Christ in the Sacrament
Sacrament of the Eucharist: Basic Questions and Answers". United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. Retrieved 13 December 2015. the Catholic Church
Catholic Church professes that, in the celebration of the Eucharist, bread and wine become the Body and Blood of Jesus
Jesus Christ through the power of the Holy Ghost and the instrumentality of the priest.  ^ The Canons of the Fourth Lateran Council, 1215, canon 1 ^ Encyclopædia Britannica, "Lateran Council" ^ Hillebrand, Hans J. (2005). " Transubstantiation
Transubstantiation - Oxford Reference". The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-506493-3. Retrieved 2017-05-30.  ^ "Article 3 The Sacrament
Sacrament of the Eucharist". Catechism of the Catholic Church. Holy See.  ^ Paul F. Bradshaw, Maxwell E. Johnson, The Eucharistic Liturgies: Their Evolution and Interpretation (Liturgical Press 2012 ISBN 978-0-81466240-3), p. 323. Francis Marsden, "Pope John Paul II's new Document on the Eucharist" (2003). "The Catholic Mass expects God to work a transformation, a change of the elements of bread and wine into the very presence of Christ. The Anglican prayers do not demand this objective change in the elements: they ask merely that the bread and wine should now take on new significance for us, as symbols of His Body and Blood. In fact, the Anglican formulae will bear interpretation either way. This is a deliberate policy, and part of the genius of Anglicanism, its ability to accommodate contradictory doctrines under the same outward form of words." ^ "CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Early Symbols of the Eucharist". Retrieved 2017-05-31.  ^ a b "CHURCH FATHERS: Ignatius to the Smyrnaeans". www.earlychristianwritings.com. Retrieved 2017-11-12.  ^ a b "CHURCH FATHERS: On the Mysteries (St. Ambrose)". www.newadvent.org.  ^ "The Didache". www.earlychristianwritings.com. Retrieved 2017-11-12.  ^ "Ignatius to the Romans". www.earlychristianwritings.com. Retrieved 2017-11-12.  ^ " Saint
Saint Justin Martyr: First Apology (Roberts-Donaldson)". www.earlychristianwritings.com. Retrieved 2017-11-12.  ^ Justin Martyr, Dialogue with Trypho, LXX ^ Tertullian, Against Marcion, IV, 40 ^ "ANF07. Fathers of the Third and Fourth Centuries: Lactantius, Venantius, Asterius, Victorinus, Dionysius, Apostolic Teaching and Constitutions, Homily - Christian Classics Ethereal Library". www.ccel.org.  ^ Cyril of Jerusalem, Cat. Myst., 5, 7 (Patrologia Graeca 33:1113): μεταβολή ^ Gregory of Nyssa, Oratio catechetica magna, 37 (PG 45:93): μεταστοιχειώσας ^ John Chrysostom, Homily 1 on the betrayal of Judas, 6 (PG 49:380): μεταρρύθμησις ^ Cyril of Alexandria, On Luke, 22, 19 (PG 72:911): μετίτησις ^ John Damascene, On the orthodox faith, book 4, chapter 13 (PG 49:380): μεταποίησις ^ Augustine, On Christian Doctrine, book 4, ch 21, quoting Cyprian. ^ a b c Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (Oxford University Press 2005 ISBN 978-0-19-280290-3), article Transubstantiation ^ Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (Oxford University Press 2005 ISBN 978-0-19-280290-3), article Berengar of Tours ^ John Cuthbert Hedley, Holy Eucharist
Eucharist (1907), p. 37. John N. King, Milton and Religious Controversy (Cambridge University Press 2000 ISBN 978-0-52177198-6), p. 134 ^  Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Fourth Lateran Council (1215)". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton. . of Faith Fourth Lateran Council: 1215, 1. Confession of Faith, retrieved 2010-03-13. ^ Luther, M. The Babylonian Captivity of the Christian Church. 1520. Quoted in, McGrath, A. 1998. Historical Theology, An Introduction to the History of Christian Thought. Blackwell Publishers: Oxford. p. 198. ^ McGrath, op.cit. pp. 198-99 ^ McGrath, op.cit., p197. ^ "A Prelude by Martin Luther
Martin Luther on the Babylonian Captivity of the Church, 2:26 & 2:27".  ^ Weimar Ausgabe 26, 442; Luther's Works 37, 299-300. ^ 1 Corinthians 11:23-26 ^ Thirty-Nine Articles, article 28 ^ "The Literature of Persecution and Intolerance - FindLaw". Findlaw.  ^ a b c J. Waterworth (ed.). "The Council of Trent
Council of Trent - The Thirteenth Session". Scanned by Hanover College students in 1995 (1848 ed.). London: Dolman.  ^ "Transubstantiation". Encyclopædia Britannica.  ^ Charles Davis: The Theology of Transubstantiation
Transubstantiation in Sophia, Vol. 3, No. 1 / April 1964 ^ Adams, Italian Renaissance Art, p. 345f. ^ Edward McNamara, "On Transubstantiation" in ZENIT, 19 April 2016 ^ Jaroslav Pelikan, The Christian Tradition: A History of the Development of Doctrine, Volume 1: The Emergence of the Catholic Tradition (100-600) (University of Chicago Press 1975), p. 44 ^ Paul Haffner, The Sacramental Mystery (Gracewing Publishing 1999 ISBN 978-0-85244476-4), p. 92 ^ Maisie Ward and F. J. Sheed, Catholic Evidence Training Outlines (Sheed & Ward, third edition 1935), p. 240. ^ Catechism of the Catholic Church, 1376 ^ a b c "V. The Sacramental Sacrifice Thanksgiving, Memorial, Presence". Catechism of the Catholic Church. Libreria Editrice Vaticana.  ^ Dulles, Avery. "Christ's Presence in the Eucharist: True, Real and Substantial". https://adoremus.org/.  External link in website= (help) ^ Kappes, Christiaan. "The Epiclesis
Epiclesis Debate: Mark of Ephesus
Mark of Ephesus and John Torquemada, OP, at the Council of Florence
Council of Florence 1439 (University of Notre Dame Press) at press 2017".  ^ " Catechism of the Catholic Church
Catechism of the Catholic Church - IntraText". www.vatican.va.  ^ Catechism of the Catholic Church, 1356-1381, number 1377, Cf. Council of Trent: DS 1641: "Nor should it be forgotten that Christ, whole and entire, is contained not only under either species, but also in each particle of either species. Each, says St. Augustine, receives Christ the Lord, and He is entire in each portion. He is not diminished by being given to many, but gives Himself whole and entire to each." (Quoted in Gratian, p. 3, dist. ii. c. 77; Ambrosian Mass, Preface for Fifth Sunday after Epiph.) —The Catechism of the Council of Trent for Parish Priests, issued by order of Pope Pius V, translated into English with Notes by John A. McHugh, O.P., S.T.M., Litt. D., and Charles J. Callan, O.P., S.T.M., Litt. D., (1982) TAN Books and Publishers, Inc., Rockford, Ill. ISBN 978-0-89555-185-6. p. 249 "Christ Whole and Entire Present in Every Part of Each Species". ^ Catechism of the Catholic Church, 1333-1344, numbers 1333-1336 under the heading "III. The Eucharist
Eucharist in the Economy of Salvation The signs of bread and wine". ^ " Catechism of the Catholic Church
Catechism of the Catholic Church - IntraText". www.vatican.va.  ^ Boylan, Dom Eugene, This Tremendous Lover, Christian Classics, Westminster, Maryland, 1989, pp. 159-170 ^ The Eucharist
Eucharist and Its Effects—The Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist, James H. Dobbins (if site says "404 Error: page not found", enter the article title in the site's Search window). Copyright © 2000-2012 by therealpresence.org, Real Presence Eucharistic Education and Adoration Association, 718 Liberty Lane, Lombard, IL 60148, Phone: 815-254-4420 ^ Thomas Aqunas, Summa Theologica, III, Question 76 ^ Douglas, Brian (3 September 2015). The Eucharistic Theology of Edward Bouverie Pusey: Sources, Context and Doctrine within the Oxford Movement and Beyond. BRILL. p. 139. ISBN 9789004304598.  access-date= requires url= (help) ^ "Epiklesis". Catholic Encyclopedia. Retrieved 2007-02-18.  ^ "Creeds of Christendom, with a History and Critical notes. Volume I. The History of Creeds. - Christian Classics Ethereal Library". www.ccel.org.  ^ "The Holy Orthodox Church at the Synod of Jerusalem
Synod of Jerusalem (date 1643 A.D.) used the word metousiosis--a change of ousia--to translate the Latin Transubstantiatio" ( Transubstantiation
Transubstantiation and the Black Rubric). ^ Confession of Dositheus (emphasis added) The Greek text is quoted in an online extract from the 1915 book "Μελέται περί των Θείων Μυστηρίων" (Studies on the Divine Mysteries/Sacraments) by Saint
Saint Nektarios. ^ [Catherine Roth, St. Theodore the Studite, On the Holy Icons, Crestwood 1981, 30.] ^ "Common Worship". www.cofe.anglican.org.  ^ Poulson, Christine (1999). The Quest for the Grail: Arthurian Legend in British Art, 1840-1920. Manchester University Press. p. 40. ISBN 9780719055379. By the late 1840s Anglo-Catholic interest in the revival of ritual had given new life to doctrinal debate over the nature of the Eucharist. Initially, 'the Tractarians were concerned only to exalt the importance of the sacrament and did not engage in doctrinal speculation'. Indeed they were generally hostile to the doctrine of transubstantiation. For an orthodox Anglo-Catholic such as Dyce the doctrine of the Real Presence was acceptable, but that of transubstantiation was not.  ^ Spurr, Barry (3 April 2010). Anglo-Catholic in Religion. Lutterworth Press. p. 100. ISBN 0718830733. The doctrine had been affirmed by Anglican theologians, through the ages, including Lancelot Andrewes, Jeremy Taylor (who taught the doctrine of the Real Presence at the eucharist, but attacked Roman transubstantiation), William Laud and John Cosin - all in the seventeenth century - as well as in the nineteenth century Tractarians and their successors.  ^ a b " Transubstantiation
Transubstantiation and the Black Rubric". anglicanhistory.org.  ^ "Pro Unione Web Site - Full Text ARCIC Eucharist". www.prounione.urbe.it.  ^ "Pro Unione Web Site - Full Text ARCIC Elucidation Eucharist". www.prounione.urbe.it.  ^ "Council for Christian Unity" (PDF). www.cofe.anglican.org.  ^ Luther, Martin (1537), Smalcald Articles, Part III, Article VI. Of the Sacrament
Sacrament of the Altar, stating: "As regards transubstantiation, we care nothing about the sophistical subtlety by which they teach that bread and wine leave or lose their own natural substance, and that there remain only the appearance and color of bread, and not true bread. For it is in perfect agreement with Holy Scriptures that there is, and remains, bread, as Paul himself calls it, 1 Cor. 10:16: The bread which we break. And 1 Cor. 11:28: Let him so eat of that bread." ^ a b Brug, J.F. (1998), The Real Presence of Christ’s Body and Blood in The Lord’s Supper:: Contemporary Issues Concerning the Sacramental Union Archived 2015-02-04 at the Wayback Machine., pp2-4 ^ a b Schuetze, A.W. (1986), Basic Doctrines of the Bible (Milwaukee: Northwestern Publishing House), Chapter 12, Article 3 ^ "Real Presence: What is really the difference between "transubstantiation" and "consubstantiation"?". WELS Topical Q&A. Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod. Archived from the original on 28 September 2009. Retrieved 25 July 2016. We reject transubstantiation because the Bible teaches that the bread and the wine are still present in the Lord's Supper (1 Corinthians 10:16, 1 Corinthians 11:27-28). We do not worship the elements because Jesus
Jesus commands us to eat and to drink the bread and the wine. He does not command us to worship them. CS1 maint: BOT: original-url status unknown (link) ^ "Real Presence: Why not Transubstantiation?". WELS Topical Q&A. Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod. Archived from the original on 28 September 2009. Retrieved 25 July 2016. CS1 maint: BOT: original-url status unknown (link) ^ VII. The Lord's Supper: Affirmative Theses, Epitome of the Formula of Concord, 1577, stating that: "We believe, teach, and confess that the body and blood of Christ are received with the bread and wine, not only spiritually by faith, but also orally; yet not in a Capernaitic, but in a supernatural, heavenly mode, because of the sacramental union" ^ "Real Presence Communion – Consubstantiation?". WELS Topical Q&A. Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod. Archived from the original on 27 September 2009. Retrieved 25 July 2016. Although some Lutherans have used the term 'consbstantiation' [sic] and it might possibly be understood correctly (e.g., the bread & wine, body & blood coexist with each other in the Lord's Supper), most Lutherans reject the term because of the false connotation it contains...either that the body and blood, bread and wine come together to form one substance in the Lord’s Supper or that the body and blood are present in a natural manner like the bread and the wine. Lutherans believe that the bread and the wine are present in a natural manner in the Lord’s Supper and Christ’s true body and blood are present in an illocal, supernatural manner.  ^ McGrath, op.cit., p.199. ^ Westminster Shorter Catechism, Q&A 96 ^ "This Holy Mystery: Part Two". The United Methodist Church
United Methodist Church GBOD. Archived from the original on July 7, 2009. Retrieved 30 May 2013.  ^ A Catechism for the use of people called Methodists. Peterborough, England: Methodist Publishing House. 2000. p. 26. ISBN 9781858521824. 

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Congregation for Divine Worship Council of Trent Ecclesia de Eucharistia Eucharistic adoration
Eucharistic adoration and benediction

Dominicae Cenae
Dominicae Cenae / Holy Hour

Eucharistic miracle Fermentum Fourth Council of the Lateran Gelineau psalmody Gregorian chant History of the Roman Canon Lex orandi, lex credendi Liturgical Movement Liturgical reforms of Pope Pius XII Mediator Dei Missale Romanum (apostolic constitution) Pope Paul VI Catholic theology Sacraments of the Catholic Church Second Vatican Council

Sacrosanctum Concilium

Summorum Pontificum Tra le sollecitudini

Catholicism portal

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Real presence
Real presence of Jesus
Jesus Christ in the Eucharist
Eucharist in the Catholic Church

Dogma

Transubstantiation

Council of Trent First Vatican Council Words of institution Last Supper Bread of Life Discourse Manna Passover

Heresy

Transignification Consubstantiation Sacramental union Stercoranism Impanation Memorialism Corporal presence Spiritual presence