Concept

Transubstantiation

Overview

Catholic doctrine that, during mass, the substance of the eucharistic bread and wine is transformed into the body and blood of Jesus, even though external appearance remains unchanged

Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).

Philosophers who discussed Transubstantiation

• Edmund Burke
• Francisco Suárez
• Giordano Bruno
• Thomas Aquinas
• Roger Bacon
• Arthur Collier
• John of Paris

Related ideas

• Eastern Orthodox Church
• Jesus
• First Epistle to the Corinthians
• Greek language
• Anglicanism
• Ambrose
• John Calvin
• Jerome
• Justin Martyr
• John Wycliffe
• Eastern Orthodoxy
• Metaphysics
• Catechism of the Catholic Church
• Augustine of Hippo
• Thomas Aquinas
• Platonism
• Lutheranism
• Presbyterianism
• Protestantism
• Metaphysics (Aristotle)
• Substance theory
• Second Vatican Council
• Summa Theologica
• Aristotelianism

Opposing perspectives

• Presbyterianism
• Essence

Place in the tradition

Part of Spanish philosophy.

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