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And the word Transubstantiation, even though it did not necessarily imply a materialistic change, undoubtedly became associated in men's minds with that idea.
The Church and the Empire, Being an Outline of the History of the Church from A.D. 1003 to A.D. 1304 1907
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The word Transubstantiation, he seemed willing to give up, if the Roman
The Life of Hugo Grotius With Brief Minutes of the Civil, Ecclesiastical, and Literary History of the Netherlands Charles Butler 1791
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"Transubstantiation" -- that is, the changing of one substance into another substance; for example, the changing of the wood in a seat into stone.
Baltimore Catechism No. 4 (of 4) An Explanation of the Baltimore Catechism of Christian Doctrine Thomas L. Kinkead
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This physical, and not merely optical, continuance of the Eucharistic accidents was repeatedly insisted upon by the Fathers, and with such excessive rigor that the notion of Transubstantiation seemed to be in danger.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913
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The change of the substance of bread and wine into the substance of the body and blood of Christ, commonly called Transubstantiation, can not be proved by holy Writ; but is repugnant to plain testimonies of the Scripture, overthroweth the nature of a Sacrament, and hath given occasion to most gross idolatry and manifold superstitions.
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From Derwin Mak, the author of "Transubstantiation," winner of the 2006 Prix Aurora Award, Canada's national science fiction award, for Best Short-Form in English.
IMM: New Crayons Galore! 02/28/2010 Ah Yuan // wingstodust 2010
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I tried to explain "Transubstantiation" the big name for changing the bread and wine into the body and blood of Jesus in a way that he could understand.
Holy Thursday and the Mystery of the Eucharist Patrice Fagnant-MacArthur 2007
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The man who believes 'Transubstantiation' distrusts his senses, and rather believes testimony: and even so would he who has fully made up his mind, on our sublime principle as to the impossibility of miracles, when any thing which has that appearance crosses his path; he is prepared to deny his senses and to trust to testimony,--to that general experience of others which comes to him, and can come to him, only in that shape.
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'Transubstantiation' and 'Concomitance,' devotions like 'Benediction,' gatherings like Eucharistic Congresses to do with the august simplicity of Christ's own institution?
Paradoxes of Catholicism Robert Hugh Benson 1892
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The first of these (omitting a work on "Transubstantiation" which I planned at the age of thirteen but did not carry far) was a _History of the English Scholastics_, which I thought of some ten years later, which was not unfavoured by good authority, and which I should certainly have attempted, if other people at Oxford in my time had not been so much cleverer than myself that I could not get a fellowship.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century George Saintsbury 1889
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