Socrates On Philosophy and Death

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

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.

But - according to the Church - the accidents cannot be, by any sensate or more rigorous test, told apart from non-blessed bread and wine. If the 'material' of the accidents is still bread and wine, it cannot also be flesh and blood ('equally dependent').

Boru