PART 6 FAVOR WITH GOD AND MAN
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WHAT DID THE CHURCH FATHERS BELIEVE CONCERNING THE ELEMENTS OF COMMUNION?
In this chapter, we will look at the writings by the Church Fathers that relate to the elements of communion. This topic will be consolidated under the word
transubstantiation, the doctrine of which was formulated at the Council of Trent (a council of the Roman Catholic Church that defined church teachings between 1545-1563AD) concerning the elements of communion. While we have already given a definition of this view, let’s state it again. This theological perspective stated that the substance of the bread and the wine changes into the substance of the body and blood of Christ. It is no longer bread and wine, but Christ really present under the appearance of bread and wine.