Examples of Real Presence in the following topics:
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Calvinism
- Calvinists broke with the Roman Catholic Church but differed from Lutherans on the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist, theories of worship, and the use of God's law for believers, among other things.
- Another Reformed distinctive present in these theologians was their denial of the bodily presence of Christ in the Lord's Supper.
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The Anglican Church
- Cranmer's formulation of the reformed religion, finally divesting the communion service of any notion of the real presence of God in the bread and the wine, effectively abolished the mass.
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The French Wars of Religion
- The posters were extreme in their anti-Catholic content—specifically, the absolute rejection of the Catholic doctrine of "Real Presence."
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Peter's Foreign Policy
- Peter the Great wanted to re-establish a Baltic presence by regaining access to the territories that Russia had lost to Sweden in the first decades of the 17th century.
- In real terms, Poland, besides Sweden, was the main victim of the war, because of the damage inflicted on its population, economy, degree of independence, ability to function politically and potential for self-defense.
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The Mongol Threat
- Another downside to the Tatar presence was the continued threat of invasion and destruction, which happened sporadically during their presence.
- Culturally, the Mongol rule brought about major shifts during the first century of their presence.
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Classical Greek Philosophy
- In several dialogues, most notably The Republic, Socrates inverts the common man's intuition about what is knowable and what is real.
- While most people take the objects of their senses to be real if anything is, Socrates is contemptuous of people who think that something has to be graspable in the hands to be real.
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The Soviet Socialist Republics
- The satellites states that arose in the Eastern Bloc not only reproduced the command economies of the Soviet Union, but also adopted the brutal methods employed by Joseph Stalin and Soviet secret police to suppress real and potential opposition.
- The Soviet-style "replica regimes" that arose in the Bloc not only reproduced Soviet command economies, but also adopted the brutal methods employed by Joseph Stalin and Soviet secret police to suppress real and potential opposition.
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The Xia Dynasty
- (For a long time it was believed that the later Shang Dynasty may also have been purely mythological, until archaeology proved that it was real.)
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Art Under the Zhou Dynasty
- Representations of the real world, in the form of paintings of figures, portraits, and historical scenes, were common during the time.
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Napoleon's Constitution
- It vested all of the real power in the hands of the First Consul, leaving only a nominal role for the other two consuls.
- He created the impression that France was governed once more by a real statesman and that a competent government was finally in charge.