Monday, December 14, 2020

Anastasius of Sinai and Transubstantiation

Q. Did Anastasius advocate the Roman dogma of transubstantiation?


Anastasius, Abbot of Sinai [Anastasius Sinaita] (7th Century):

Either that which you receive is not the real body of Christ but a figure and mere bread, or because of your misbelief the Holy Ghost did not descend upon it, or the body of Christ is corruptible before the resurrection as being slain and put to death and wounded and divided and eaten. For an incorruptible nature is not cut or wounded in the side and hands or divided or put to death or eaten or at all held or handled; but is of such a kind as the incorruptible nature of angels and souls. (Hodogos, 23 [P.G. lxxxix. 297]) see (J. P. Minge, Patrologiæ Cursus Completus, [1860], Patrologiæ Græcæ, Tomus LXXXIX, S. Anastasii Sinaitæ, Viæ Dux, Col. 297). Here Trans. (Darwell Stone, A History of the Doctrine of the Holy Eucharist, [1909], Volume I, pp. 137-138). Here



~ Soli Deo Gloria



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