What Was The Difference Between Luther And Zwingli

Marburg Colloquy
It’s October 1529 and I have managed to sit in on the all debates held by Martin Luther and Ulrich Zwingli. This meeting in Marburg to be known as the Colloquy at Marburg has been in the making since Luther and Zwingli, first started to realize a difference in their theological beliefs. This indifference started about three years ago when Martin Luther learned that Zwingli had begun to revise the explanation of the Eucharist.1 In reaction Luther indirectly said to Zwingli, “I regard them all cut out of the same cloth, whoever they are who are unwilling to believe that the lord’s body in the supper is his true, natural body.”2 This signaled the start of the split of the two theological scholars and their followers.
The basis for there difference was on the Roman Doctrine of Transubstantiation which Luther and Zwingli held different beliefs. Luther believed that Christ was physically present in the Eucharist the body and blood of Christ. For Luther the Eucharist was a “testament” to faith in the lord and by taking the Eucharist you have achieved salvation and been forgiven of all sin. However Zwingli believed that the Eucharist was a symbol in remembrance of the crucifixion of Christ for our sins and it showed the church’s continuous belief in Christ. In regards to salvation Zwingli believed that, “salvation was by Christ alone, through faith alone, not through faith and