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 Conference
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
Lord's Supper
Protestant theology
Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist
Reformation-era doctrinal unity
hasParticipant Andreas Osiander
Caspar Hedio
Huldrych Zwingli
Johannes Agricola
Johannes Brenz
Johannes Oecolampadius
Justus Jonas
Martin Bucer
Martin Luther
Philip Melanchthon
Ulrich von Hutten
hasSource contemporary protocols and letters of participants
historicalPeriod 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 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

Referenced by (6)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Marburg Colloquy ("Marburg Conference")
Marburg Colloquy ("Marburger Religionsgespräch")
alsoKnownAs
Huldrych Zwingli
Martin Bucer
participatedIn
Swiss Reformation
hasKeyEvent
Huldrych Zwingli
participantIn

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