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Definition of Real presence
1. Noun. (Christianity) the Christian doctrine that the body of Christ is actually present in the Eucharist.
Generic synonyms: Church Doctrine, Creed, Gospel, Religious Doctrine
Definition of Real presence
1. Noun. (theology) The actual presence of Christ's body and blood in the Eucharistic sacrament. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Real Presence
Literary usage of Real presence
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology: Including Many of the Principal by James Mark Baldwin (1901)
"This in connection with the doctrine of real presence in the Eucharist. It is
obvious that, unless the divine nature communicates its attribute of ..."
2. Religious Thought in England, from the Reformation to the End of Last by John Hunt (1870)
"Any doctrine of the 'real presence' that was in any way kindred to transubstantiation,
was unknown among Laud's Churchmen. Taylor begins his treatise by ..."
3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"His treatment in this book of the real presence is especially ... In his sermon
on Holy Saturday he descants on the Easter duty and on the real presence. ..."
4. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"This is the doctrine of the real presence, represented as th« essential in the
... Perceval declares that he and his colleagues take the real presence as ..."
5. Nature by Norman Lockyer (1878)
"Add the talking phonograph to counterfeit their voices and it would be difficult
to carry the illusion of real presence much further. ..."
6. The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte by Auguste Comte, Frederic Harrison (1896)
"The same political efficacy attached to the doc- Presence trine of the Real
Presence, which, intellectually strange as it is, is merely a prolongation of ..."
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