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Huldrych Zwingli
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Zwingli proposed the Memorialist View, asserting that the elements were purely symbolic pointers (signa). He famously argued that if Christ literally meant his words, then Christ’s body would be simultaneously present in multiple locations, which violated the basic laws of spatial mechanics as understood by contemporary Aristotelian physics. He believed the Eucharist was a symbolic act of communal remembrance, similar to a military oath sworn over a battlefield map. ${[3]}$
This disagreement culminated in the Marburg Colloquy (1529), where Zwingli and Luther met in the presence of …