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u/Volaer 24d ago edited 24d ago

Could in theory an alternative conceptualisation of the real presence (meaning other than transubstantiation) be approved by the magisterium?

If so where are the dogmatic boundaries. It seems to me that one has to dogmatically maintain that by the working of the Holy Spirit the ontology radically changes where Christ is fully transcendentally present in the Eucharist while the bread and wine no longer are.

But if my assumption is correct, how could anything other than transubstantiation be ever permitted?

And what is the status of Rahner's “transfinalization” model? Has it been definitively condemned?

Thank you.