impanation

American

[im-puh-ney-shuhn] / ˌɪm pəˈneɪ ʃən /

noun

Theology.

the doctrine that the body and blood of Christ are in the bread and wine after consecration.

impanation British

/ ˌɪmpæˈneɪʃən /

noun

Christianity the embodiment of Christ in the consecrated bread and wine of the Eucharist

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Etymology

Origin of impanation

1540–50; < Medieval Latin impanātiōn- (stem of impanātiō ), equivalent to Latin im- im- ¹ + pan ( is ) bread + -ātiōn- -ation

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This genuinely Lutheran doctrine it was that also David Henkel had been preaching, and which his opponents who charged him with Roman aberrations called transubstantiation, impanation, or consubstantiation.

From American Lutheranism Volume 1: Early History of American Lutheranism and The Tennessee Synod by F. (Friedrich) Bente

This is what they called impanation, invination, consubstantiation.

From The Necessity of Atheism by David Marshall Brooks

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