Huldrych Zwingli taught that the Lord's Supper is a re-presentation of Christ's sacrifice but only in the symbolic sense of proclaiming it again.25 Zwingli pointed to Paul's words in 1 Cor 11:24–26 as the clearest biblical testimony for how the Supper should be understood. Since Zwingli, many Protestants, including most Baptists, have adopted this memorial understanding, primarily because it is indubitably biblical, and secondarily (perhaps) because it avoids any hint of the sacramentalism of the Roman Catholic position. That said, Baptists have historically used language so rich about
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