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To: GoLightly; Kolokotronis
I believe Trent included something having to do with the mechanism, which is the part that the Orthodox didn’t embrace

We don't know the mechanism. The Eastern Church agrees that there is change in substance but that the mechanism remains a mystery. In other words, we agree with the meaning of the term transubstantiation but reject that it explains the mode by which the change is made.

In that regard, nothing has changed in either Catholic or Orthodox Church doctrine. Kolo correctly points to the fact that the Latin Church, faced with Protestant challenge, found it necessary to express the mystery in more legalistic and clearly defined terms in order not to confuse it with Lutheran "consubstantiation."

The Eastern Church to this day accepts, but not necessarily uses, the term  metaousiois (change in substance, the equivalent of transubstantiation), because it expresses what the Church taught all along.


156 posted on 06/11/2007 9:04:18 AM PDT by kosta50 (Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
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To: kosta50; Kolokotronis
We don't know the mechanism. The Eastern Church agrees that there is change in substance but that the mechanism remains a mystery. In other words, we agree with the meaning of the term transubstantiation but reject that it explains the mode by which the change is made.

Seems to me this would be an easy thing to come together on because in the end we both receive the same Christ -truly wholly and substantially His Body ,Blood, Soul and Divinity

178 posted on 06/11/2007 12:15:54 PM PDT by stfassisi ("Above all gifts that Christ gives his beloved is that of overcoming self"St Francis Assisi)
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