Post 16 (11/23)

Talking about both Luther and Calvin today, I was curious to see more of how their views align and differ. It turns out, they are pretty similar--not to say that Calvin was Luther v2.0 or something, but they were pretty closely aligned with the exception of the Lord's Supper. Luther taught consubstantiation, while Calvin wrote in a letter about Luther, "How foolishly he erred when he stated that the bread is the body itself." Meanwhile, Calvin believed in the presence of the living Christ in the sacrament of the Lord's Supper by the action of the Holy Spirit. Calvin believed God was there in the sacraments in a spiritual sense; Luther believed it to be a physical sense.