transubstantiation
Example Sentences
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It would be like the pope abruptly announcing that the doctrine of transubstantiation is nonsense; it’s just a cracker and a cup of watered-down wine.
From Salon
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
On that metaverse platform, collectors will be able to convert NFT Mars rocks made by Sachs into digital worlds, a process that he termed “transubstantiation.”
From New York Times
Ordained men can stand in persona Christi, allowing them, for example, the superpower of transubstantiation.
From New York Times
When the Protestant reformers in the 16th century rejected the Catholic teaching that the bread and wine substantively became the body and blood of Jesus, Catholic Church leaders affirmed the teaching, called transubstantiation.
From New York Times
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