transubstantiation

Is this related to transubstantiation of adult blood to wine and flesh to cracker?

This change at the level of substance from bread and wine into the Body and Blood of Christ is called "transubstantiation.

Consider for one that quite a lot of people believe in transubstantiation; a bit of bread and wine becomes the body of their savior.

* caveat: I'm neither a philosopher nor a believer in transubstantiation

To understand transubstantiation you need to understand the philosophy behind it.

He knew nothing of transubstantiation, or of reserved sacraments, or of the adoration of the saints, or of the vestments controversy.

So Universalism, unlike its ancestors, is not concerned with the Trinity or transubstantiation or predestination.

For example, the justifications around the eucharist literally being the blood and body of christ require some truly incredible mental gymnastics, and this transubstantiation is a core element of the faith.

For example, transubstantiation is either a rejected or optional doctrine in every major Protestant Christian denomination; a doctrinal viewpoint which is per se heretical.

The political nature of these difference in doctrine is what makes them worth firing over in the first place!Unless you want to point me to the Mathematics professor who got fired for critiquing the finer points of the Church's justification of its position on transubstantiation.

In the case of transubstantiation, the church claimed that while the accidental properties of the bread, the form of the bread were unchanged, the underlying substance of the bread was completely different -- in the same way that for example a petrified tree was transubstianted from wood to stone, while many of the accidental properties and the form where unchanged.