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
He rejected the Catholic Church’s doctrine of transubstantiation.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022
If the priest confined his sermons to “purely theological issues,” he might still be allowed to purchase airtime, but the doctrine of transubstantiation was never his preferred topic.
From Slate ● Jan. 21, 2021
Soon after Cranmer followed, recanting all belief in the Pope's supremacy, and in transubstantiation.
From Cathedral Cities of England by George Gilbert
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