Category: Transubstantiation
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“This is My Body”: Literal or Metaphorical?
The question is moot, according to to Anthony G. Flood. The question of the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist cannot arise for one who understands scripture. “This do in remembrance of Me,” Jesus commanded His disciples at His last Passover, two days before the official Passover preparation that was concurrent with His passion. (He probably elected to…
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The Two Natures and the Real Presence: A Note on Frithjof Schuon
I have been reading Frithjof Schuon off and on since the mid-'70s. But this is my first weblog entry that mentions him. I don't expect it will be my last. The orthodox, Chalcedonian, view of Christ is that he is at once fully divine and fully human, true God and true man, and thus one…