(December 14, 2016 at 6:16 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote:(December 14, 2016 at 6:05 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Sort of puts the kibosh on transubstantiation, dunnit?
Boru
Just the opposite. That would be the essence of it. The whatness of a thing changes when any of the four causes change. When it is blessed, the final cause of the bread and wine have changed and that makes them different substances.
You can't demonstrate the efficacy of the blessing.