Consensus Tigurinus

As Consensus Tigurinus (literally: "Zurich agreement"), of the Heinrich Bullinger and John Calvin in 1549 concluded agreement is referred to about the sacrament through which it came on the approximation of the Zwinglian and Calvinistic Reformation in Switzerland and thus to a unified Swiss Reformed Church.

Historical Background

The Counter-Reformation and the disagreement with the Lutherans forced the Zwinglian and Calvinist to agree innerreformiert. In an exchange of letters 1547-1549 to Bullinger and Calvin had agreed in the Lord's Supper on it, " This is my body " to be understood as " my body That means".

The consensus

The document, which has also signed Wilhelm Farel next Bullinger and Calvin, includes 26 articles. In it are described in Articles 21, 24 and 26, the " papal heresies " ( transubstantiation, real presence and worship of elements) and in Articles 24 and 25 of the Lutheran doctrines of Konsubstantation and ubiquity discarded.

For the Swiss Reformation, the consensus was very important because it united the reformed camp - this is also the other Reformed cities the Consensus Tigurinus joined.