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This thoroughgoing study examines the doctrine of transubstantiation from historical, theological, and ecumenical vantage points. Brett Salkeld explores eucharistic presence in the theologies of Aquinas, Luther, and Calvin, showing that Christians might have more in common on this topic than they have typically been led to believe. As Salkeld corrects false understandings of the theology of...

In article 2, Aquinas asks whether the substance of the bread and wine remains after the consecration. Though Thomas (like Luther after him) does not use the term here, this possibility is typically known as consubstantiation because, according to it, the substance of the bread and wine would exist with (con) the substance of Christ’s body and blood. Thomas gives four reasons for rejecting this possibility, the first of which is the most important.177 Since the body and blood of
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