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From: mangoe@umcp-cs.UUCP (Charley Wingate)
Newsgroups: net.religion.christian
Subject: Re: Correction on transsubstantiation
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Date: Fri, 22-Feb-85 15:37:42 EST
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In article <486@hlwpc.UUCP> cb@hlwpc.UUCP (Carl Blesch) writes:
>As I understand it, transsubstantiation means that the bread and wine
>ARE ACTUALLY the body and blood of Christ.  Churches that do not
>subscribe to the doctrine of transsubstantiation believe that the
>bread and wine REPRESENT (but are not one in substance with) the
>body and blood of Christ.

Actually, there is a third position, subscribed to by Anglicans and Lutherans
(and, I believe, by the Eastern churches).  This is "real presence", which
I've never heard explained much further than that.  It's sort of a less
"magical" version of transubstantiation; the bread and wine remain bread and
wine, yet Christ is present in them.

Charley Wingate