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Sacramental Union

The Lutheran account of how Christ's body and blood are present in the Supper: truly present in, with, and under the bread and wine, which remain bread and wine. Not transubstantiation, which says the elements cease to be bread and wine; and not consubstantiation, a scholastic term Lutherans have consistently declined. Lutherans confess that the presence is real and decline to explain the mechanism.

In Sacraments — Baptism, the Lord's Supper, confession, and the language around them.

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