Anonymous ID: d0c94a Aug. 17, 2018, 1:13 p.m. No.2647054   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun

The doctrine of transubstantiation, elaborated by scholastic theologians from the 13th to the 15th century, was incorporated into the documents of the Council of Trent (1545โ€“63).

 

The faith in the Real Presence as brought about by a mysterious change antedates the scholastic formulation of the doctrine, as is shown by the use of equivalent terms in the patristic writers.

 

In the mid-20th century some Roman Catholic theologians restated the doctrine of Christโ€™s eucharistic presence. Shifting the emphasis from a change of substance to a change of meaning, they coined the terms transsignification and transfinalization to be used in preference to transubstantiation.

 

But, in his encyclical Mysterium fidei in 1965, Pope Paul VI called for a retention of the dogma of Real Presence together with the terminology of transubstantiation in which it had been expressed.