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John 6: Sacramental and Spiritual Communion John 6: Sacramental and Spiritual Communion
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Interpreting the Institution Accounts Interpreting the Institution Accounts
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The Mediating Alternatives The Mediating Alternatives
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Conclusion Conclusion
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Further Reading Further Reading
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Works Cited Works Cited
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44 The Eucharist (John 6; 1 Cor. 10–11)
Get accessAmy Nelson Burnett (PhD, History, University of Wisconsin–Madison) is Paula and D. B. Varner University Professor of History at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, where she teaches early modern European history. She is the author of Debating the Sacraments: Print and Authority in the Early Reformation (2019) and Karlstadt and the Origins of the Eucharistic Controversy: A Study in the Circulation of Ideas (2011). Bruce Gordon (PhD, University of Zurich) is Titus Street Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Yale Divinity School. In 2021 he published The Oxford Handbook of Calvin and Calvinism (Oxford) and Huldrych Zwingli: God’s Armed Prophet (Yale). He is the author of Calvin (2009) and The Swiss Reformation (2002). He has received honorary degrees from the University of Zurich, Switzerland (2012), and the University of King’s College, Dalhousie, in Canada (2019).
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Published:19 November 2024
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Abstract
From the beginning of the eucharistic controversy, Luther and the Swiss reformers disagreed on whether John 6:63 was relevant to the Lord’s Supper, whether “this is my body” should be interpreted literally or figuratively, and whether 1 Cor. 10:16 referred to the fellowship among Christians or the distribution of Christ’s body in the bread. Martin Bucer advocated an alternative position that used John 6:53–58 and 1 Cor. 10:16 to highlight the believer’s spiritual reception of Christ’s true body. This allowed agreement with Melanchthon and made possible the 1536 Wittenberg Concord. While Calvin was initially influenced by Bucer’s exegesis, Bullinger remained loyal to Zwingli’s interpretation, and his position influenced the major Reformed confessions.
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