Alexander Pruss's Blog

The doctrines of the Trinity, the Incarnation and transubstantiation initially seem contradictory. Elaborate theological/philosophical accou...

The two main parts of the doctrine of transubstantiation that get philosophically discussed are that after consecration we have: Real Presen...

Our three-dimensional space is curved, say, like the surface of a balloon--except that the surface of a balloon is two-dimensional while spa...

Suppose we have a religion whose central tenets are paradoxical, verging on the contradictory. What would we expect? We might predict that t...

A classic objection to transubstatiation, famously pressed by Wycliffe, is that according to the Catholic understanding of the doc...

The doctrine of transubstantiation has two primary components: The real presence of Christ's body and blood The real absenc...

I had, almost word-for-word, the following conversation with each of my two older children (ages 11 and 8), while I was pointing at som...