The Consensus Tigurinus, agreed between John Calvin and Heinrich Bullinger in Zurich in 1549, is the primary theological text itself, a formal doctrinal agreement between the Genevan and Zurich branches of the Reformed tradition settling their previously divergent understandings of the Lord's Supper into one shared position. Its strength is that it is the actual founding document of Reformed eucharistic doctrine as a unified position, written by the two reformers themselves rather than described by a later commentator, so a claim about what Reformed Protestantism actually agreed on the sacrament can be checked against its own words. Its limit is that a consensus document states the settled compromise rather than the substantial theological disagreement it resolved, so a claim about the specific points on which Calvin's and Bullinger's earlier views differed, or about how Lutheran reformers reacted against this settlement, needs a historical account of the controversy the Consensus itself was written to close.
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The Consensus Tigurinus, agreed between Calvin and Bullinger in Zurich in 1549, is the primary founding document of Reformed eucharistic doctrine, written by the two reformers themselves, treated at the top tier as that primary text. NotesThe agreement on the Lord's Supper reached between Geneva and Zurich. It settled the Swiss Reformed churches with each other and was read in Lutheran territory as evidence that Geneva had joined Zurich.
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AuthorJohn Calvin and Heinrich Bullinger
PublisherZurich
Publication Year1549
Source Typeprimary-text
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This source names Heinrich Bullinger directly: "agreed between John Calvin and Heinrich Bullinger in Zurich in 1549, is the primary theological text itself, a formal doctrinal agreement between the Genevan and Zurich branches of the Reformed..."
This source names John Calvin directly: "The Consensus Tigurinus, agreed between John Calvin and Heinrich Bullinger in Zurich in 1549, is the primary theological text itself, a formal doctrinal agreement between the Genevan and Zurich..."
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