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{{short description|Religious concordat}}
'''Wittenberg Concord''', is a religious [[concordat]] signed by [[Reformed churches|Reformed]] and [[Lutheranism|Lutheran]] theologians and churchmen on May 29, 1536<ref>{{citation|last=Raitt|first=Jill|date=June 1983|title=The Emperor and the Exiles: The Clash of Religion and Politics in the Late Sixteenth Century|journal=Church History|publisher=Cambridge University Press|volume=52|issue=2|pages=145–156|issn=0009-6407|url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/3166948|accessdate=2013-03-15}}</ref><ref name="mcneill411">{{citation|last=McNeill|first=John|date=July 1928|title=Calvin's Efforts toward the Consolidation of Protestantism|journal=The Journal of Religion|publisher=The University of Chicago Press|volume=8|issue=3|pages=411–433|issn=0022-4189|url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/1196033|accessdate=2013-03-15|accessdate=2013-03-15}}</ref> as an attempted resolution of their differences with respect to the [[Real Presence]] of Christ's body and blood in the [[Eucharist]].<ref name="mcneill411"/> It is considered a foundational document for [[Lutheranism]]<ref>{{citation|last=Russell|first=William|date=September 1995|title=The Theological "Magna Charta" of Confessional Lutheranism|journal=Church History|publisher=Cambridge University Press|volume=64|issue=3|pages=389–398|issn=00096407|url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/3168946|accessdate=2013-03-15}}</ref> but was later rejected by the Reformed.▼
{{Portal|Reformed Christianity}}
▲'''Wittenberg Concord''', is a religious [[concordat]] signed by [[Reformed churches|Reformed]] and [[Lutheranism|Evangelical Lutheran]] theologians and churchmen on
The Reformed
▲The Reformed who signed it were [[Martin Bucer]],<ref name="mcneill379">{{citation|last=McNeill|first=John|date=December 1963|title=Calvin as an Ecumenical Churchman|journal=Church History|publisher=Cambridge University Press|volume=32|issue=4|pages=379–391|issn=0009-6407|url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/3163288|accessdate=2013-03-15|accessdate=2013-03-15|accessdate=2013-03-15}}</ref> [[Wolfgang Fabricius Capito]], [[Matthäus Alber]], [[Martin Frecht]], [[Jakob Otter]], and [[Wolfgang Musculus]]. The [[Lutheranism|Lutherans]] who signed were [[Martin Luther]],<ref name="mcneill379"/> [[Philipp Melanchthon]],<ref name="mcneill379"/> [[Johannes Bugenhagen]], [[Justus Jonas]], [[Caspar Cruciger the Elder|Caspar Cruciger]], [[Justus Menius]], [[Friedrich Myconius]], [[Urban Rhegius]], [[George Spalatin]]. This document defined the doctrine of the [[Real Presence]] of Christ's body and blood in the [[Eucharist]] as the [[Sacramental Union]] and maintained the real eating of the body and blood of Christ by "unworthy communicants" (''[[manducatio indignorum]]''). [[Martin Bucer]] would later disavow his subscription to this document.<ref>{{citation|last=Eells|first=Hastings|date=January 1931|title=The Contributions of Martin Bucer to the Reformation|journal=The Harvard Theological Review|publisher=Cambridge University Press|volume=24|issue=1|pages=29–42|issn=0017-8160|url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/1507896|accessdate=2013-03-15}}</ref>
== Notes ==
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▲[[Category:History of Lutheranism]]
[[Category:Lutheran Eucharistic theology]]
[[Category:Christianity in the Holy Roman Empire]]
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