Real Presence in the Eucharist and time-travel
Religious Studies 51 (3):379-389 (2015)
Abstract
This article aims to bring some work in contemporary analytic metaphysics to discussions of the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist. I will show that some unusual claims of the Real Presence doctrine exactly parallel what would be happening in the world if objects were to time-travel in certain ways. Such time-travel would make ordinary objects multiply located, and in the relevantly analogous respects. If it is conceptually coherent that objects behave in this way, we have a model for the behaviour of the Eucharist which shows the doctrine to be coherent, at least with respect to the issues discussed.
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The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.Zalta, Edward N. (ed.)
A Latin Trinity.Leftow, Brian
The Real Presence.Baber, H. E.
Oxford Studies in Metaphysics: Volume 3.Zimmerman, Dean (ed.)

Location and Mereology.Gilmore, Cody
Recent Philosophical Work on the Doctrine of the Eucharist.Arcadi, James M.
Thomas White on the Metaphysics of Transubstantiation.Connolly, Patrick J.
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