# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_Februar 1856_S33
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Doctrine and Defense.

Volume II.  February 1856.  No. 2.

Consubstantiation and Impanation.

If the opponents of the Lutheran church here in America wish to designate with one short, terse term the teaching of Luther, of the Augsburg Confession, of the Formula of Concord, and indeed of the whole ancient Lutheran church concerning the Holy Supper — in particular concerning the manner of the presence of the body and blood of Jesus Christ in this sacrament — nothing is more common than for them then to use the technical terms named in the heading, Consubstantiation and Impanation, or also Incorporation.

This false imputation is still to be found in the most recent edition of the Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge, edited by J. Newton Brown, of 1854. In this work it says, under the heading "Consubstantiation," the following: "A tenet of the lutheran church respecting the presence of Christ in the Lord's supper. Luther denied that the elements were changed after consecration, and therefore taught that the bread and wine indeed remain; but that together with them, there is present the substance of the body of Christ, which is literally (!) received by communicants. As in red-hot iron it may be said, two distinct substances, iron and fire, are united, so is the body of Christ joined with the bread." Under the heading "Lutheranism" it says: "It has undergone some alterations since the time of its founder. Luther believed the impanation or consubstantiation."

To be sure, it is now a regrettable, disheartening testimony to the state of theological education here, when a work that means to represent it contains such — we will only say — distortions of the teaching of a church spread over the whole globe; but it is still more unforgivable, and presupposes either the grossest ignorance or evil intentions, when even professed theologians who call themselves Lutheran misrepresent the teaching of the church whose servants, stewards, and watchmen they claim to be, just as inaccurately. Unfortunately, this happens here not infrequently. The whole so-called "American Lutheran" church, with a Dr. B. Kurtz and Dr. S. S. Schmucker at its head, itself indeed disclaims the acceptance of