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transubstantiation. In the theology of the Eucharist, the conversion of the whole substance of the bread and wine into the whole substance of the Body and Blood of Christ, only the accidents (i.e. the appearance of the bread and wine) remaining. The word was in use in the latter part of the 12th cent., and at the Lateran Council of 1215 the Eucharistic elements were said to be ‘transubstantiated’ into the Body and Blood of Christ, but the elaboration of the doctrine was not achieved until the acceptance of Aristotelian metaphysics later in the 13th cent., when it found classic formulation in the teaching of St Thomas Aquinas. It was reaffirmed at the Council of Trent. The Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission in 1971, reaching agreement on Eucharistic doctrine, stated that the term ‘transubstantiation’ affirmed the fact of the ‘mysterious and radical change’ rather than explaining how the change takes place.

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