Supporters of the mass claimed that the eucharist was a true sacrifice, while Zwingli claimed that it was a commemorative meal. |
Two analogies that he used quite effectively were between baptism and circumcision and between the eucharist and Passover. |
Zwingli approached the eucharist in a similar manner to baptism. |
Calvin differed with Zwingli on the eucharist and criticised him for regarding it as simply a metaphorical event. |
Ecclesiologists tend to converge on the eucharist as the source for expressing this theology. |
A doctrinal conflict had developed between Luther and Zurich reformer Huldrych Zwingli on the interpretation of the eucharist. |