transubstantiation

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Meanwhile, in Germany, Martin Luther had questioned the Catholic doctrine of transubstantiation, the literal transformation of bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

The family’s transubstantiation of lucre into religious hardware was pretty brassy, because — not to put too fine a point on this — the Sassoons were drug kingpins.

From New York Times • Mar. 2, 2023

The council also affirmed the doctrine of transubstantiation.

From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022

Simultaneously, he suggests, those gadgets promise something greater, a kind of reverse transubstantiation that will put us in touch with the immaterial “philosophy” of Apple’s co-founder.

From Slate • Jan. 30, 2018

At Rome, Lanfranc was honoured as the defender of transubstantiation, and his appointment to Canterbury was warmly approved by the Pope.

From The English Church in the Middle Ages by Hunt, William