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Marburg Colloquy
The Marburg Colloquy from October 1 to October 4, 1529 was a meeting of the leading protestant reformers called by Philipp I of Hessen. After the Reichstag in Speyer had confirmed the edict of Worms, the need was felt to reconcile the diverging views in particular of Martin Luther and Huldrych Zwingli to have a unified protestant theology. Besides these two, the reformers Johannes Agricola, Johannes Brenz , Martin Bucer, Caspar Hedio , Justus Jonas, Philipp Melanchthon, Johannes Oecolampadius, and Andreas Osiander participated in the disputation.
Although the two charismatic leaders found a consensus on fourteen points, they kept differing on the last one on the Eucharist: Luther maintained that through consubstantiation the bread and wine in the Lord's Supper became truly the flesh and blood of Christ, whereas Zwingli considered bread and wine only symbols. They parted without having reached an agreement.
Categories: Reformation | Hesse | 1529
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