Example sentences for: transubstantiation

How can you use “transubstantiation” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Transubstantiation makes you queasy because it's the consumption of someone's body and blood, or on more philosophical grounds?

  • I don't picket churches, even though I find the Doctrine of Transubstantiation makes me queasy, and I don't raise a crew to protest Adam Sandler's insulting my intelligence.

  • That he was a theologian there can be little doubt, and anyone would have been able with the help of his dictionary to plough through a sermon on predestination or a debate on the difference between transubstantiation and consubstantiation.

  • Writing in the Washington Times , Robert Alt contrasted the Roman Catholic belief in transubstantiation, "whereby the bread and wine, while maintaining their ordinary physical qualities, are substantively transformed in the Eucharist into the body, blood, soul and divinity of Jesus Christ," with consubstantiation, the Methodist (and Lutheran) teaching that "the bread and wine and Christ's presence exist simultaneously."

  • As for the T-word: "The word transubstantiation is commonly used in the Roman Catholic Church to indicate that God acting in the Eucharist effects a change in the inner reality of the elements."


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