John Calvin was arguably even more influential ... Calvin thought weekly Holy Communion was the minimum frequency: “The sacrament might be celebrated in the most becoming manner, if it were ...

John Calvin is one of the most recognized names ... Their differences in view on Communion prevented such ambitions. Ulrich Zwingli claimed that in Communion, the bread and wine were purely ...

It was John Calvin in the late 16th century who saw ... their own ministers but the use of tokens as a means of regulating communion. The earliest tokens were made of lead but others were of ...

Thomas O’Loughlin’s book Eating Together, Becoming One: Taking Up Pope Francis’s Call to Theologians is published by Liturgical Press. On February 29, for the first time in nearly 500 years ...

If a Calvinist is a person who follows strictly the teachings of John Calvin ... Zwingli rather than Calvin leads to a minimalist theology that results in infrequent communion often poorly ...

The local bishop employed Calvin’s father as an administrator in the town’s cathedral. The father, in turn, wanted John to become a priest. Because of close ties with the bishop and his noble family, ...