A Christian doctrine teaching that the body and blood of Christ exist alongside the bread and wine in communion rather than replacing them.
From 'consubstantiate' + '-tion' (act or process). This noun names the specific theological position or the process it describes, combining Latin roots to identify a distinct religious belief.
Martin Luther proposed consubstantiation as a middle ground between Catholic and Protestant thinking, but the word itself was so weird and technical that most regular people never understood what he was actually saying—it's theology for intellectuals only.
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