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Meaning of CONSUBSTANTIATION

Pronunciation:  `kânsub`stanshee'eyshun

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: [n]  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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 See Also: theological doctrine

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Con`sub*stan`ti*a"tion\ (?; 106), n.
1. An identity or union of substance.
2. (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.
Note: This view, held by Luther himself, was called
      consubstantiation by non Lutheran writers in
      contradistinction to transsubstantiation, the Catholic
      view.
 

 

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