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Calvin and Christ's Presence in the Supper—True or Real

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 February 2009

Joseph N. Tylenda
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Calvin is one with the other Christian communities in teaching a presence of Christ's body and blood in the Lord's Supper. To arrive at a conclusion other than this is to misread him, to misunderstand and misinterpret him. Certainly, the reformer cannot be numbered among the sacramentarians, as if he had taught that the partaking of Christ's flesh and the drinking of his blood were nothing more than merely believing in Christ. The sacraments are signs, it is true, but they are not merely signs, they are signs of a present reality.

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Scottish Journal of Theology , Volume 27 , Issue 1 , February 1974 , pp. 65 - 75
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Copyright © Scottish Journal of Theology Ltd 1974

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page 66 note 1 We have made use of the Beveridge translation as published in Calvin's Tracts and Treatises, 3 vols. (Grand Rapids, 1958)Google Scholar. All citations are from the second volume, hence only the page is given, e.g. 219. The 7.742–3 indicates the volume in Opera Calvini in the series Corpus Reformatorum together with the column.

page 68 note 1 Institutes of the Christian Religion (Library of Christian Classics, XX, XXI), translated by Battles, Ford Lewis and edited by McNeill, John T. (Philadelphia, 1960).Google Scholar

page 74 note 1 Ecclesia Reformata: Studies on the Reformation (Leiden, 1972), p. 102.Google Scholar

page 74 note 2 La Doctrine calviniste de la Sainte Cène (Montpellier, 1951) p. 30.Google Scholar