Melanchthon quoted also the testimonies of Origen, Cyprian, Chrysostom, and Augustin,
for the apostolic origin of infant-baptism.
§ 103. The Eucharistic Controversy.
I. Sources (1) Lutheran. Luther: Wider die himmlischen Propheten, Jan. 1525 (against Carlstadt
and the Enthusiasts). Dass die Worte, "Das ist mein Leib," noch fest stehen (wider die
Schwarmgeister), 1527. Grosses Bekenntniss vom Abendmahl, March, 1528 (against Zwingli
and Oecolampadius). Kurzes Bekenntniss rom heil. Sacrament, 1544. All these tracts in the
Erl. ed. vols. XXVI. 254; XXIX. 134, 348; XXX. 14, 151; XXXII. 396. Walch, Vol. XX.
1–2955, gives the eucharistic writings, for and against Luther, together with a history.
Bugenhagen: Contra novum errorem de sacramento corporis et sanguinis Christi. 1525. Also
in German. In Walch, XX. 641 sqq. Brentz and Schnepf: Syngramma Suevicum super verbis
coenae Dominicae "Hoc est corpus meum," etc., signed by fourteen Swabian preachers,
Oct. 21, 1525. Against Oecolampadius, see Walch, XX. 34, 667 sqq.
(2) On the Zwinglian side. Zwingli: Letter to Rev. Mathaeus Alber, Nov. 16, 1524; Commentarius
de vera et falsa religione, 1525; Amica exegesis, id est, Expositio eucharistiae negotii ad M.
Lutherum, 1526; Dass diese Worte Jesu Christi: "Das ist myn Lychnam," ewiglich den alten
eynigen Sinn haben werden, 1527; and several other eucharistic tracts. Oecolampadius: De
genuina verborum Domini: "Hoc est corpus meum," juxta vetustissimos auctores expositione,
Basel, 1525; Antisyngramma ad ecclesiastas Suevos (with two sermons on the sacrament),
- Oecolampadius and Zwingli: Ueber Luther’s Buch Bekenntniss genannt, zwo Antworten,
- See Zwingli: Opera, ed. Schuler and Schulthess, vol. II. Part II. 1–223; III. 145; 459 sqq.;
589 sqq.; 604 sqq. Also Walch, vol. XX. Extracts in Usteri and Vögelin, M. H. Zwingli’s
Sämmtl. Schriften im Auszuge, vol. II. Part I., pp. 3–187.
II. The historical works on the eucharistic controversies of the Reformation period, by Lavater
(Historia Sacramentaria, Tig. 1563): Selnecker and Chemnitz (Hist. des sacram. Streits, Leipz.,
1583 and 1593); Hospinian (Hist. Sacramentaria, Tig. 1603, 2 vols.); Löscher (Hist. Motuum,
in 3 Parts, Leipz., second ed., 1723); Ebrard (Das Dogma vom heil. Abendmahl und seine
Geschichte, 2 vols., 1846); Kahnis (1851); Dieckhoff (1854); H. Schmid (1873).
III. The respective sections in the General Church Histories, and the Histories of the Reformation,
especially Seckendorf, Gieseler, Baur, Hagenbach, Merle, Fisher. Planck, in his Geschichte des
Protest. Lehrbegriffs (Leipz. second revised ed., 1792, vol. II., Books V. and VI.), gives a very
full and accurate account of the eucharistic controversy, although he calls it "die unseligste alter
Streitigkeiten" (II. 205).
IV. Special discussions. Dorner: Geschichte der protestant. Theologie (Muenchen, 1867), pp.
296–329. Jul. Mueller: Vergleichung der Lehren Luther’s und Calvin’s ueber das heil.
Abendmahl, in his "Dogmatische Abhandlungen" (Bremen, 1870, pp. 404–467). Köstlin:
Luther’s Theologie, II. 100 sqq., 511 sqq.; Mart. Luther, I. 715–725; II. 65–110 (Luther und
Zwingli); 127 sqq.; 363–369. August Baur: Zwingli’s Theologie (Halle, 1885; second vol. has
not yet appeared).
American discussions of the eucharistic controversies. J. W. Nevin (Reformed, d. 1886): The
Mystical Presence, Philadelphia, 1846; Doctrine of the Reformed Church on the Lord’s