receptionismn.

1868 G. F. Cobb Kiss of Peace (ed. 2) i. i. 7 ‘Is Christ, in fact, really or merely virtually received?’ According to the answer the Receptionist gives to this question, we shall either continue to call him a ‘Receptionist’, and his belief ‘Receptionism’, or else we shall call him a ‘Virtualist’, and his belief ‘Virtualism’.

1878 J. S. Boucher Lect. Notes Sacramental Articles 45 ‘Receptionism’: the Res Sacramenti present ‘subjectively’. i.e., in the hearts of the good only, by an effort of faith or will.

1900 D. Stone Outl. Christian Dogma xi. 191 Receptionism is the view that the bread and wine remain only bread and wine after consecration; but that, together with them, the faithful communicant really receives the body and blood of Christ.

1945 G. Dix Shape of Liturgy xvi. 677 Seventeenth century divines who combined a firm belief in the Apostolic Succession with either the Calvinist view of a ‘spiritual presence’ or the new ‘receptionism’ of Hooker.

1999 Times (Nexis) 9 Oct. This is in fact the opposite of transubstantiation, a form of the Protestant doctrine of receptionism.