eucharist

• Transubstantiation


  The belief that the bread and wine of the eucharist actually become the body and blood of Christ when consecrated by a priest
• Transubstantiation was reaffirmed by the council of Trent
• Transubstantiation is the basic Catholic belief
• You will be denounced as a heretic (or worse a protestant) if you don't agree with transubstantiation
• Transignification


  The belief that Christ is sacramentally but not physically present in the consecrated bread and wine, that all effective signs consist of two parts: "signifier" and "signified" in the eucharist the signifier is the substance of the bread and wine, whilst the signified is the substance of Christ's body and blood
• Transignification

  That two kinds of presence, local and personal. Pupils may be "locally present" in a class but if their thoughts are far away then they are not "Personally present", in the eucharist Jesus is personally, but not locally present
• Transignification was proposed by Schilebedckx
• Transignification was condemned by Pope Paul VI in "Mysterium Fidei"
• Transignification is allowed if it compliments transubstantiation
• Transfinalization


  The belief that when the bread and wine are consecrated their purpose and finality is changed, but not their substance - they serve the new function - which is to stir up faith in the mystery of Christ's redemptive love
• Transfinalization was condemned by Pope Paul VI in "Mysterium Fidei"
• Consubstantiation


  The belief that the body and blood of Christ co-exist with the consecrated bread and wine of the eucharist - they remain bread and wine but Christ is spiritually present "with them, in them and under them"
• Consubstantiation is often associated with the beliefs of Luther
• Luther never actually believed in consubstantiation, and a lot of Lutheran churches reject it as unbiblical
• Luther actually used the term "sacramental union"
• Memorialism


  The belief that the consecrated bread and wine of the eucharist are merely symbolic representations of Christ's body and blood
• Memorialism describes the view held by Zwingli
• Memorialism denied the real presence of Christ within the eucharist
• Memorialism is based on Luke 22:19 "do this in memory of me"
• Virtualism

  The belief that Christ's unique power (LT "Virtus") is present in the consecrated bread and wine, but that this power is received only by the predestined elect
• Virtualism describes the view held by Calvin
• Virtualism came from Calvin's views on predestination (double predestination)
• Virtualism denies Christ's physical presence because he has ascended (Acts 1:9-11)