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Real presence   /ril prˈɛzəns/   Listen
Real presence

noun
1.
(Christianity) the Christian doctrine that the body of Christ is actually present in the Eucharist.





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"Real presence" Quotes from Famous Books



... putting to death of numerous dissenters. Thus, we find Calvin, at Geneva, consenting to the burning of Servetus because of a difference in religious views. At a convention in Torgau, in 1574, the Lutherans established the real presence of Christ in the eucharist and then instigated the Elector of Saxony to seize, imprison, and banish those who differed from them in sentiment, as a result of which Peucer suffered ten years of the severest imprisonment and Crellius was put to death. ...
— The Last Reformation • F. G. [Frederick George] Smith
... whole fabric would be swept away by the strong tide of popular opinion which was now turned against it, and he hastened to interpose in its defence. He brought to the stake several persons who denied the real presence, as a terror to the reformers; whilst at the same time he showed his resolution to quell the adherents of popery, by causing bishop Fisher and sir Thomas More to be attainted of treason, for refusing such part of the oath of succession as implied ...
— Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth • Lucy Aikin


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