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  2. Transubstantiation - Wikipedia

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    Methodists believe in the real presence of Christ in the bread and wine (or grape juice) while, like Presbyterians and Lutherans, rejecting transubstantiation. According to the United Methodist Church, "Jesus Christ, who 'is the reflection of God's glory and the exact imprint of God's very being', [115] is truly present in Holy Communion." [116]

  3. Consubstantiation - Wikipedia

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    Consubstantiation is a Christian theological doctrine that (like transubstantiation) describes the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist.It holds that during the sacrament, the substance of the body and blood of Christ are present alongside the substance of the bread and wine, which remain present.

  4. Real presence of Christ in the Eucharist - Wikipedia

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    The Council of Trent, held 1545–1563 in reaction to the Protestant Reformation and initiating the Catholic Counter-Reformation, promulgated the view of the presence of Christ in the Eucharist as true, real, and substantial, and declared that, "by the consecration of the bread and of the wine, a conversion is made of the whole substance of the bread into the substance (substantia) of the body ...

  5. Infant communion - Wikipedia

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    Infant communion is not the norm in the Lutheran Church. At most churches in the ELCA (as well as nearly 25% in the LCMS [2]), First Communion instruction is provided to baptized children generally between the ages of 6–8 and, after a relatively short period of catechetical instruction, the children are admitted to partake of the Eucharist. [3]

  6. Eucharistic theology - Wikipedia

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    The Eastern Orthodox Church has never clarified or made statement on the exact nature of transformation of the bread and wine, nor gone into the detail that the Roman Catholic Church has with the doctrine of transubstantiation, which was formulated after the Great Schism of 1054; the Eastern Orthodox churches have never formally affirmed or ...

  7. United Methodists 'do not condone corporal punishment ... - AOL

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    However, the United Methodist Church’s documented social principles within the Book of Resolutions reflect the collected wisdom of Christ-followers from a variety of cultures and backgrounds all ...

  8. United Methodists open first top-level conference since ... - AOL

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    The delegates, half clergy and half lay Methodists, are the decision makers at General Conference. WHAT United Methodists open first top-level conference since breakup over LGBTQ inclusion

  9. United Methodist Church - Wikipedia

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    The United Methodist Church's understanding of a "saint" is not unique among Protestants, yet differs significantly from the Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Anglican, and Lutheran views. Methodists do not have a process for electing people to sainthood. They do not pray to saints, nor do they believe that saints serve as mediators to God.