Consubstantiation is a Christian theological doctrine that (like transubstantiation) describes the

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. It holds that during the sacrament, the substance of the body and blood of

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are present alongside the substance of the bread and wine, which remain present. It was part of the doctrines of Lollardy, and considered a

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by the

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. It was later championed by Edward Pusey of the Oxford Movement, and is therefore held by many high church Anglicans.

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in the late 14th century, there was a political and religious movement known as Lollardy. Among much broader goals, the Lollards affirmed a form of consubstantiation—that the Eucharist remained physically bread and wine, while becoming spiritually the body and blood of Christ. Lollardy survived up until the time of the English Reformation. Literary critic Kenneth Burke's dramatism takes this concept and utilizes it in secular rhetorical theory to look at the dialectic of unity and difference within the context of logology. The doctrine of consubstantiation is often held in contrast to the doctrine of transubstantiation. To explain the manner of Christ's presence in Holy Communion, many high church

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s teach the philosophical explanation of consubstantiation. A major leader in the

Anglo-Catholic Anglo-Catholicism comprises beliefs and practices that emphasise the Catholic heritage and identity of the various Anglican churches. The term was coined in the early 19th century, although movements emphasising the Catholic nature of Anglica ...

Oxford Movement, Edward Pusey, championed the view of consubstantiation. Pusey's view is that: The term ''consubstantiation'' has been used to describe

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's Eucharistic doctrine, the sacramental union. Lutheran theologians reject the term because it refers to a philosophical construct that differs from the Lutheran doctrine of the sacramental union, denotes a mixing of substances (bread and wine with body and blood), and suggests a "gross, Capernaitic, carnal" presence of the body and blood of Christ.Formula of Concord, Epitome, VII.42 and Solid Declaration VII.127 in F. Bente, ''Triglot Concordia'', (St Louis: CPH, 1921), 817, 1015.

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