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In this volume, Donald Bloesch explores with charity and balance the contours of ecclesiology. He forthrightly takes up the most controversial of issues ranging from matters of church authority, the sacraments and worship, the church’s place in the plan of salvation, the church and the kingdom of God, to the issue of church reunion. Evangelical in spirit, ecumenical in breadth and biblical in...

meaning of the real presence of Christ in the blessed sacrament of the eucharist. Roman Catholic tradition supports the doctrine of transubstantiation, by which the elements of bread and wine are substantially changed into the Body and blood of Christ. Some Lutherans have advanced the view of consubstantiation, in which the Body and blood are given in union with the sacramental elements, but these elements are not materially altered. Some Catholic scholars today subscribe to transignification, in
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