Marburg Colloquy

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The Marburg Colloquy was a 1529 theological conference in Marburg where leading Protestant reformers, notably Martin Luther and Huldrych Zwingli, debated key doctrinal issues in an unsuccessful attempt to achieve unity.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf historical event
religious disputation
theological conference
aimedAt achieving unity among Protestant reformers
alsoKnownAs Marburg Colloquy
surface form: Marburg Conference

Marburg Colloquy
surface form: Marburger Religionsgespräch
country Holy Roman Empire
date 1529
disputedDoctrine nature of Christ's presence in the Lord's Supper
endDate 1529-10-04
followedBy continued division between Lutheran and Reformed traditions
hasMainSubject Eucharistic doctrine
Holy Eucharist
surface form: Lord's Supper

Protestant theology
Defense of the real presence in the Eucharist
surface form: Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist

Reformation-era doctrinal unity
hasParticipant Andreas Osiander
Caspar Hedio
Huldrych Zwingli
Johannes Agricola
Johann Brenz
surface form: Johannes Brenz

Johannes Oecolampadius
Justus Jonas
Martin Bucer
Martin Luther
Philip Melanchthon
Ulrich von Hutten
hasSource contemporary protocols and letters of participants
historicalPeriod Reformation
surface form: Protestant Reformation
host Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse
influenced later Reformed confessions
later confessional documents of Lutheranism
language German
location Landgraviate of Hesse
Marburg
LutherPosition affirmation of bodily Real Presence (sacramental union)
numberOfArticlesAgreed 14
organizedBy Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse
precededBy Lutheran Reformation debates on the Eucharist
religiousContext Lutheranism
Reformed tradition
religiousMovement Protestant Christianity
surface form: Protestantism
result no doctrinal agreement on the Eucharist
partial agreement on fourteen articles of faith
significance contributed to the confessional split between Lutheran and Reformed churches
first major attempt to unite Lutheran and Swiss Reformation
startDate 1529-10-01
tookPlaceInBuilding Marburg Castle
topic Christology in relation to the Eucharist
authority of Scripture
ZwingliPosition symbolic or memorial understanding of the Eucharist

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Huldrych Zwingli participatedIn Marburg Colloquy
Martin Bucer participatedIn Marburg Colloquy
Marburg Colloquy alsoKnownAs Marburg Colloquy
this entity surface form: Marburg Conference
Marburg Colloquy alsoKnownAs Marburg Colloquy
this entity surface form: Marburger Religionsgespräch
Swiss Reformation hasKeyEvent Marburg Colloquy
Huldrych participantIn Marburg Colloquy
subject surface form: Huldrych Zwingli
Johann Brenz participantIn Marburg Colloquy
this entity surface form: Marburg Colloquy debates on the Lord's Supper
Lutheran Reformation hasKeyEvent Marburg Colloquy
Marburg Castle significantEvent Marburg Colloquy
Justus Jonas participantIn Marburg Colloquy
Zwinglianism historicalEventAssociated Marburg Colloquy
this entity surface form: Marburg Colloquy of 1529
Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse notableEvent Marburg Colloquy