Ratramnus of Corbie and Transubstantiation

Q. Did Ratramnus advocate the Roman dogma of transubstantiation?

 

Ratramnus, Monk of Corbie (c. ?-869 A.D.):

We see, therefore, that the mystery of the body and blood of Christ, which is now taken by the faithful in the church, is separated by a wide difference from that which was born of the Virgin Mary, which suffered, which was buried, which rose again, which ascended into heaven, which sits at the right hand of the father. For this which is done in the way is to be received spiritually; for faith, which sees not, believes and spiritually feeds the soul, and rejoiceth the heart, and bestows uncorrupt and eternal life, while we attend not to what feeds the body, to what is pressed with the teeth, to what is broken into pieces, but to what is spiritually received in faith. (J. P. Minge, Patrologiæ Cursus Completus, [1852], Patrologiæ Latinæ, Tomus CXXI, Ratramni Corbeiensis Monachi, De Corpore Et Sanguine Domini, Caput LXXXIX, Col. 165). Here Trans. (J. H. Treat, The Catholic Faith; Or, Doctrines of the Church of Rome Contrary to Scripture and the Teaching of the Primitive Church, [1888], p. 241). Here

 

…that this bread and this blood which are placed upon the altar are placed there for a figure or memorial of the Lord's death, that it may recall to present memory what was done in the past; that being made mindful of that Passion, by it we may be made partakers of the Divine gift, whereby we are liberated from death: knowing that when we shall come to the vision of Christ, we shall have no need of such instruments, by which we may be admonished what boundless beneficence endured for us. (J. P. Minge, Patrologiæ Cursus Completus, [1852], Patrologiæ Latinæ, Tomus CXXI, Ratramni Corbeiensis Monachi, De Corpore Et Sanguine Domini, Caput C, Col. 170). Here Trans. (J. H. Treat, The Catholic Faith; Or, Doctrines of the Church of Rome Contrary to Scripture and the Teaching of the Primitive Church, [1888], p. 230). Here

 

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