Lord's Supper
Andreas Carlstadt
A short biography of Andreas Bodenstein von Carlstadt (1486–1541), Luther’s senior colleague at Wittenberg, leader of the Wittenberg reforms of 1521–22, and later professor at Basel.
Johannes Oecolampadius
A short biography of Johannes Oecolampadius (1482–1531), reformer of Basel, friend of Zwingli, and defender of the Reformed doctrine of the Lord’s Supper at Marburg.
John Frith
A biographical sketch of John Frith (1503–1533), Tyndale’s friend and fellow laborer, burned at Smithfield.
Martin Bucer
A short biography of Martin Bucer (1491–1551), reformer of Strasbourg, peacemaker among the Protestants, mentor of John Calvin, and Regius Professor of Divinity at Cambridge.
Nicholas Ridley
A short biography of Nicholas Ridley (c. 1500–1555), Master of Pembroke Hall, Bishop of London, and martyr at Oxford with Hugh Latimer.
Oxford Eucharistic Disputation (1549)
Oxford Eucharistic Disputation (1549): The Lord’s Supper in Edwardian England. A concise account of the debate and its place in the Protestant Reformation.
Paschasius Radbertus
The Carolingian abbot who wrote the first doctrinal book on the Eucharist and taught that the bread becomes the very flesh born of Mary.
Peter Martyr Vermigli
A short biography of Peter Martyr Vermigli (1499–1562), the Florentine prior who fled the Inquisition and taught Reformed theology at Strasbourg, Oxford, and Zurich.
Ratramnus of Corbie
The Carolingian monk who answered Radbertus, teaching with Augustine that Christ is present in the Supper spiritually.
Sacraments
The historical development of the medieval sacramental system and the Reformers’ recovery of a biblical understanding of grace, baptism, and the Lord’s Supper.
The Eucharist
The Eucharist as Rome administers it: its place among the sacraments, the Easter duty, confession before communion, the withheld cup, its effects on venial sin, adoration, and viaticum, weighed by the Reformers and Scripture.
The Eucharist
The Eucharist as Rome administers it: its place among the sacraments, the Easter duty, confession before communion, the withheld cup, its effects on venial sin, adoration, and viaticum, weighed by the Reformers and Scripture.
The Eucharist Comparison
A side-by-side comparison of Roman Catholic and Reformation teaching on the Lord’s Supper.
The Eucharist Comparison
A side-by-side comparison of Roman Catholic and Reformation teaching on the Lord’s Supper.
The Mass
Why the Reformers rejected the Roman Mass as a repeated sacrifice, and what Scripture teaches of the Lord’s Supper.
The Mass
Why the Reformers rejected the Roman Mass as a repeated sacrifice, and what Scripture teaches of the Lord’s Supper.
