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Document Details : Title: Translating Transubstantiation Subtitle: The Grammatical Thomists and the Aristotelian Categories in Aquinas' Eucharistic Theology Author(s): NORMAN, Jack Journal: Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses Volume: 99 Issue: 1 Date: 2023 Pages: 57-77 DOI: 10.2143/ETL.99.1.3291437 Abstract : This article details interpretations of Aquinas’ eucharistic theology by Herbert McCabe, Denys Turner, and Brian Davies. It examines the way in which they re-present transubstantiation as transignification (McCabe), minimise the term 'transubstantiation' (Turner), or downplay the role of Aristotelian metaphysics (Davies). I argue that such readings maintain the eucharistic presence of Christ but cannot articulate the ways Christ is absent. Because transubstantiation involves only a substantial change, it denies any accidental change. This denial is the real explanatory power of the Aristotelian metaphysics in understanding transubstantiation. |
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