transubstantiation

• The ancients go much farther, admitting a real incorporation of Jesus Christ with us, and the reality of Christ's natural body, as St. Hilarius speaks Thus Grotius was persuaded the term transubstantiation , adopted by the Council of Trent, was capable of a good interpretation[598]: but it is not clear however, that, though he admitted the expressions used by the Catholic Church, he was of her opinion. —  The Life of the Truly Eminent and Learned Hugo Grotius
• After approving the term transubstantiation, he adds[599], “And because what is spiritual among the Jews is called real, the terms really, substantially, and essentially, are used in the Protestant Confessions, and by their Doctors.” It is plain from what he subjoins, that he sought rather to unite different sentiments by means of equivocal expressions, than by an exact Creed, which might be susceptible of only one sense. —  The Life of the Truly Eminent and Learned Hugo Grotius
• This was in opposition to the Protestants, who maintained that the term transubstantiation ought to be rejected on account of its novelty. —  The Life of the Truly Eminent and Learned Hugo Grotius
• It was he who attacked the dogma of transubstantiation, according to which in the mass the bread and wine of the sacrament are so changed by the consecration of the priest into the body and blood of our Lord, that nothing really remains of their original substance, but they only appear to the senses to retain it. —  Life of Luther
• His subject was the doctrine of transubstantiation, and, standing upon the altar steps, he developed an argument most striking and persuasive. —  Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White, V2

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