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The High-Church Anglican doctrine that after the consecration of the Eucharist the substance of the body and blood of Christ coexists with the substance of the consecrated bread and wine
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consubstantiation
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the doctrine of the High Anglican Church that after the consecration of the Eucharist the substance of the body and blood of Christ coexists with the substance of the consecrated bread and wine
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Consubstantiation \Con`sub*stan`ti*a"tion\ (?; 106), n. An identity or union of substance. (Theol.) The actual, substantial presence of the body of Christ with the bread and wine of the sacrament of the Lord's Supper; impanation; -- opposed to transubstantiation. ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Consubstantiation is a theological doctrine that (like Transubstantiation ) attempts to describe the nature of the Christian Eucharist in concrete metaphysical terms. It holds that during the sacrament , the fundamental " substance " of the body and blood ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, from Church Latin consubstantionem (nominative consubstantio ), noun of action from past participle stem of consubstantiare , from com- "with" (see com- ) + substantia (see substance ). Related: Consubstantiate .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 An identity or union of substance. 2 (context Christianity English) The actual, substantial presence of the body of Christ with the bread and wine of the sacrament of the Lord's Supper; impanation, as opposed to transubstantiation.
Usage examples of consubstantiation.
Mason cannot resist putting in, "if we proceed, that is, to Consubstantiation, or the Bread and Wine remaining Bread and Wine, whilst the spiritual Presence is reveal'd in Parallel Fashion, so to speak, closer to the Parliament we are familiar with here on Earth, as whatever they may represent, yet do they remain, dismayingly, Humans as well.
After they had fought each other for a hundred years, culminating in the horror of the thirty years' war, and after it had appeared that as a result of all this bloodshed the balance of parties at the end was almost exactly what it had been at the beginning, certain men of genius, mostly Dutchmen, suggested that perhaps all the killing had been unnecessary, and that people might be allowed to think what they chose on such matters as consubstantiation versus transubstantiation, or whether the Cup should be allowed to the laity.
Woe unto you, blind guides, with your subtleties of doctrine, your transubstantiation and consubstantiation and all the rest of it.