Gyula Klima is Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University, and Director of the Research Center for the History of Ideas of the Institute of Hungarian research. He is also the founding director of the Society for Medieval Logic and Metaphysics and of the Society for the European History of Ideas. His publications include Questions on the Soul by John Buridan and Others (Springer, 2017), Intentionality, Cognition and Mental Representation in Medieval Philosophy (Fordham University Press, 2015), John Buridan (Oxford University Press, 2008), John Buridan: Summulae de Dialectica, an annotated translation with a philosophical introduction; (Yale University Press, 2001); ARS ARTIUM: Essays in Philosophical Semantics, Medieval and Modern (Institute of Philosophy of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 1988).

The essays provide a unique historical-analytical survey concerned with the problems of stemming from the sacramen

The volume covers preeminent historical theological approaches to the problems from the beginnings to our times

The essays uncovers the various semantical and metaphysical presumptions from the main historical authorities

Chapter 1. Foreword: Should we discuss matters of faith, and if so, how? (Klima).- Chapter 2. Introduction: The Semantics, Metaphysics and Theology of the Eucharist (Klima).- Chapter 3. The Three Sacraments of Pseudo-Dionysius (Baptism, Eucharist, Holy Unction) and their subsequent transformations in Christian theology (Perczel).- Chapter 4. Azyma and Epiclesis: Two Eucharistic Differences between Greeks and Latins (Geréby).- Chapter 5. The Armenian Metaphysics of the Sacrifice (Contin).- Chapter 6. The impossibility of transubstantiation and the philosophical representation of religion in the 1260s and 70s (Borbély).- Chapter 7. Accidens secundum species: Bonaventure's solution to the problem of the accident sine subiecto (Afonso).- Chapter 8. The Body of Christ in Aquinas's Quodlibetal Questions (Nevitt).- Chapter 9. Whether definitions can contain esse: The problem of subsistent accidents in the Eucharist (Twetten).- Chapter 10. "Real Presence" is Not Enough: Recovering the Lost Semantics of Transubstantiation (Hochschild).- Chapter 11. Scotus on Inherence and the Eucharist (Cross).- Chapter 12. Schuman, Boaz: John Buridan on the Eucharist.- Chapter 13. Transubstantiation and real distinction between essence and existence? The concerns of Benedict Pereira SJ (1536 - 1610) (Ventimiglia).- Chapter 14. Quotation and Consecration: Question 10 of Pico's Apology (Crimi).- Chapter 15. Substantiation: Trans and Con (Normore).- Chapter 16. Semantics versus Metaphysics in the Lutheran Scholastic Rejection of Transubstantiation (Hahn).- Chapter 17. Rejecting Transubstantiation in Late Medieval England and Bohemia (Levy).- Chapter 18. Real Presence and the Problem of Revisionist Ontology in Descartes's Account of Eucharist (Schmal).- Chapter 19. Do We Eat Christ When We Eat Accidents? A Single-Subject Eucharistic Theology (McCullough).- Chapter 20. A Second-Person Perspective on the Eucharist (Pinsent).