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  • Nicolas Poussin: Adoration of the Golden Calf
    idolatry

    …Holy Trinity) and the consecrated Host in the Eucharist (which may properly be adored because it has been changed into the very body of Christ). Although the accusation of idolatry is thus a part of the polemic of Christian against Christian, so that Protestants are accused of bibliolatry and Roman…

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    …Holy Trinity) and the consecrated Host in the Eucharist (which may properly be adored because it has been changed into the very body of Christ). Although the accusation of idolatry is thus a part of the polemic of Christian against Christian, so that Protestants are accused of bibliolatry and Roman…

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  • Eucharist
    Eucharist
    / In Eastern Orthodoxy

    …than unleavened bread for the host, the bread that ceremonially becomes Christ’s body.

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    …than unleavened bread for the host, the bread that ceremonially becomes Christ’s body.

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