Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In theology, the doctrine that the body and blood of Christ are locally included in the bread and wine after consecration.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Eccl.) Embodiment in bread; the supposed real presence and union of Christ's material body and blood with the substance of the elements of the eucharist without a change in their nature; -- distinguished from
transubstantiation , which supposes a miraculous change of the substance of the elements. It is akin toconsubstantiation .
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- noun Christianity The actual, substantial presence of the body of
Christ with the bread and wine of thesacrament of theLord's Supper — as opposed totransubstantiation .
Etymologies
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Examples
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This is what they called impanation, invination, consubstantiation.
The Necessity of Atheism David Marshall Brooks
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Christ's Real Presence by a kind of impanation (Christum quodammodo impanari).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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The theologians of the Reformed Churches, calling this doctrine, in their attack against the Lutherans, impanation, use the term not in the strict sense explained above, but in a wider meaning.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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Andreas Osiander (died 1552), a fervent disciple of Luther, seems to have held the doctrine of impanation, though later Lutheran theologians have tried to acquit him of this error.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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On the other hand Innocent VII directed the archbishop (24 June, 1405) to take measures against the heretical teachings of Wyclif, especially the doctrine of impanation in the
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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Bayma, a Catholic theologian, in a series of theses proposed a theory on Transubstantiation, which, upon critical examination, comes very close to the above mentioned teaching of William of Paris; in fact, it seems to explain the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist by impanation.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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The doctrine of impanation agrees with the doctrine of consubstantiation, as it was taught by Luther, in these two essential points: it denies on the one hand the Transubstantiation of bread and wine into the Body and Blood of Christ, and on the other professes nevertheless the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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The doctrine of impanation as far as it denies the
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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March, 1538, to the pastor Vitus Theodorus in Nuremberg, merely expresses his suspicion that Osiander held the doctrine of impanation.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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Alger of Liège cited Rupert as an advocate of impanation, since it remains unknown whether Rupert had already published his ambiguous expression at the time when Alger wrote his attack.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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