Zwingli and Cranmer on the Eucharist [Cranmer Dixit et Contradixit]: M. Dwight John Memorial Leadership in Church History

57 pp. Cranmer argues that for someone to eat the body and drink the blood of Jesus Christ means for that person to "dwell in Christ and to have Christ dwelling in him." To truly partake in the sacrament requires faith. Cranmer distinguishes Christ's spiritual presence from his sacramental presence. Near the end of his life Zwingli summarized his understanding of the Eucharist in a confession sent to King Francis I, saying: "We believe that Christ is truly present in the Lord's Supper; yea, we believe that there is no communion without the presence of Christ.