Editing Heinrich Bullinger (section)

=== The Eucharist ===
Bullinger's mature [[eucharistic theology]] differed notably from that of Zwingli. Though at first Bullinger viewed both the Old Covenant [[Passover|Passover feast]] and the New Covenant Lord's Supper as symbolic, a view reflected in the language of the [[First Helvetic Confession]] (1536), in 1544, in a pamphlet responding to Luther, Bullinger argued that [[Real spiritual presence|the real spiritual presence of Christ]] occurred in the Eucharist. Bullinger thereafter linked the symbolic and spiritual presence in the [[Consensus Tigurinus]] of 1549, which he composed with Calvin, a formula codified in the [[Heidelberg Catechism]] (1563) and the [[Helvetic Confessions|Second Helvetic Confession]] (1562/4).<ref name=":6" />