Editing Transubstantiation (section)

====Reformed churches====
{{Main|Lord's Supper in Reformed theology}}
The [[Reformed Christianity|Reformed]] tradition ([[Continental Reformed]], [[Presbyterian]], [[Congregationalist]], and [[Anglicanism|Classical Anglican]]) holds [[John Calvin]]'s view of "pneumatic presence" or "spiritual feeding", a Real Presence by the Holy Spirit for those who have faith. Calvin "can be regarded as occupying a position roughly midway between" the doctrines of Martin Luther on one hand and Huldrych Zwingli on the other. He taught that "the thing that is signified is effected by its sign", declaring: "Believers ought always to live by this rule: whenever they see symbols appointed by the Lord, to think and be convinced that the truth of the thing signified is surely present there. For why should the Lord put in your hand the symbol of his body, unless it was to assure you that you really participate in it? And if it is true that a visible sign is given to us to seal the gift of an invisible thing, when we have received the symbol of the body, let us rest assured that the body itself is also given to us."<ref>McGrath, op.cit., p.199.</ref>

The Westminster Shorter Catechism summarises the teaching:{{Quote|Q. What is the Lord's supper?

A. The Lord's supper is a sacrament, wherein, by giving and receiving bread and wine according to Christ's appointment, his death is showed forth; and the worthy receivers are, not after a corporal and carnal manner, but by faith, made partakers of his body and blood, with all his benefits, to their spiritual nourishment and growth in grace.<ref>Westminster Shorter Catechism, Q&A 96</ref>}}