Monday, March 4, 2019

Eucharist (Mass/Communion) Reformation Debate

And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me.
1 Corinthians 11:24
Luther, Calvin, Zwingli, Pope Paul III
"The papal doctrine of the Eucharist is that, at the word of the priest, the bread and the wine become veritably the flesh and blood of the Lord.
This trans-substantiation; that is, change of substance.
Luther renounced this; but went no further than to hold that while the bread and the wine are not the actual flesh and blood of the Lord, yet that the Lord is actually present with the bread and the wine.
This is con-substantiation; that is, with the substance.
Zwingli denied both and held, as now generally by Protestants, that the bread and the wine are simply memorials of the broken body and shed blood of the Savior.
Calvin appeared, as a sort of mediator between the Lutherans and Zwinglians. He proposed to effect a more perfect union, by modifying the opinions of both parties. "
A.T.Jones