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Manducatio indignorum


Manducatio impiorum ("eating by the impious") or manducatio indignorum ("eating by the unworthy") is the view held by Martin Luther and Philipp Melanchthon, but denied by Huldrych Zwingli and John Calvin, that even unbelievers who eat and drink the Eucharist physically eat and drink the body and blood of Christ. Calvin believed that Christ's body is given to all communicants, but only received by those who have faith. It relates to doctrine of the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist, and, in particular, to the interpretation of 1 Corinthians 11:27-29:


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