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To: Cronos
with Calvinists who do note believe in the True Presence in the Eucharist, the Eucharist is merely symbolic,

Not exactly. Presbyterians are sort of in the middle of what you are describing.

From the Larger Catechism:

Q. 170. How do they that worthily communicate in the Lord's supper feed upon the body and blood of Christ therein?
A. As the body and blood of Christ are not corporally or carnally present in, with, or under the bread and wine in the Lord's supper, and yet are spiritually present to the faith of the receiver, no less truly and really than the elements themselves are to their outward senses; so they that worthily communicate in the sacrament of the Lord's supper, do therein feed upon the body and blood of Christ, not after a corporal and carnal, but in a spiritual manner; yet truly and really, while by faith they receive and apply unto themselves Christ crucified, and all the benefits of his death.

Can't speak for the Dutch Reformed or the Particular Baptists.

16 posted on 04/09/2013 1:02:58 PM PDT by Gamecock ("Ultimately, Jesus died to save us from the wrath of God." —R.C. Sproul)
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To: Gamecock

Thanks for the correction, I did not know that. Would it be correct to say that the PCA, OPC and (I know you won’t like it, but just theologically on this one matter) the PCUSA all believe what you stated about the Eucharist?


20 posted on 04/09/2013 11:33:56 PM PDT by Cronos (Latin presbuteros->Late Latin presbyter->Old English pruos->Middle Engl prest->priest)
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To: Gamecock; ArrogantBustard; redgolum

However, it is fundamentally different from the beliefs of Lutherans on the Eucharist. And this was the root cause of the Prussian Union wherein the King of Prussia (I think it was pre-Kaiser times) forced together the Calvinists and Lutherans into one Church


21 posted on 04/10/2013 3:01:23 AM PDT by Cronos (Latin presbuteros->Late Latin presbyter->Old English pruos->Middle Engl prest->priest)
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