There was no escaping the fact that the two Protestant blocs had disagreed very quickly on fundamental issues. Most importantly, Luther, like the Pope and Henry VIII, believed that in the mass bread and wine became the body and blood of Christ (though he disagreed with Pope and King as to how this miracle took place). By contrast, the Swiss and south Germans saw this liturgical drama as ‘the Lord’s Supper’: a memorial of Christ’s great sacrifice on the Cross, mystically symbolized in bread and wine, which nevertheless remained bread and wine still.
