<i>Unica Oblatio Christi</i>: Eucharistic Sacrifice and the first Zürich Disputation

Abstract

The First Zürich Disputation (January 29th, 1523) between Ulrich Zwingli and Johann Faber was the earliest Reformation-era public debate of the doctrine of the eucharistic sacrifice. While Zwingli was at an early and relatively fluid stage in his rejection of eucharistic sacrifice, Faber's defense employed not only traditional scholastic sources but other authoritative supports previously unused in the defense of doctrine. Nevertheless, the polemical atmosphere of the exchange between the two both during and after the disputation precluded true clarity and potential common ground on this issue.