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Ubiquitarians


The Ubiquitarians, also called Ubiquists, were a Protestant sect that held that body of Christ was everywhere, including the Eucharist.  The sect was started at the Lutheran synod of Stuttgart, 19 December 1559, by Johannes Brenz (1499–1570), a Swabian.  Its profession, made under the name of Duke Christopher of Württemberg and entitled the "Württemberg Confession," was sent to the Council of Trent in 1552, but had not been formally accepted as the Ubiquitarian creed until the synod at Stuttgart.

Luther had upset the peace of Germany by his disputes.  In the effort to reconcile and unite the contending forces against the Turks, Charles V demanded of the Lutherans a written statement of their doctrines.  This—the "Augsburg Confession"—was composed by Philip Melanchthon, and read at a meeting at Augsburg in 1530.  Its tenth article concerned the Real Presence of Christ in the Blessed Sacrament, a burning question among the Protestants.

In 1540, Melanchthon published another version of the "Augsburg Confession", in which the article on the Real Presence differed essentially from what had been expressed in 1530.  The wording was as follows:

Johann Eck, in a conference at Worms, 1541, was the first to call attention to the change.  Debates followed, and the Ubiquitarian controversy arose, the question being:  Is the body of Christ in the Eucharist, and if so, why?


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