receptionism
Etymology
From reception + -ism.
receptionism means the Anglican doctrine that, during the Eucharist, the bread and wine remain unchanged after consecration, but that communicants receive the body and blood of Christ by faith when they consume the bread and wine. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
Why this word is great
RECEPTIONISM — [Noun] The Anglican Eucharistic doctrine that, while the bread and wine remain materially unchanged after consecration, the communicant receives the spiritual body and blood of Christ by faith upon consumption. From reception (from the Latin receptio, "a receiving") + the suffix -ism (denoting a doctrine or system). Unlike transubstantiation, which asserts an ontological change in the elements themselves, or consubstantiation, which posits a real, corporeal presence within them, receptionism is a theology of the threshold, contingent upon faith. It is the dry wafer dissolving on an expectant tongue, the faint tannic warmth of sacramental wine, and the quiet inward turn of a heart in a crowded nave—a doctrine not of altered elements, but of a conditional grace received in the fleeting, private rendezvous where faith becomes the only necessary vessel.
noun
- The Anglican doctrine that, during the Eucharist, the bread and wine remain unchanged after consecration, but that communicants receive the body and blood of Christ by faith when they consume the bread and wine.