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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...

he lifts them up, as it were, out of the setting of their normal existence into a new order; even if, from a purely physical point of view, they remain the same, they have become profoundly different.”190 Here, in fact, we can see an eschatological theme in transubstantiation, an anticipation of Christ as all in all, and we are reminded of what we heard earlier from Gustave Martelet—namely, that “transubstantiation is not an isolated mystery” but “the sacramental emergence” of the mystery that is,
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