John T. McNeill, Ph.D.: "The History and Character of Calvinism:" Ch. 5-...

A magisterial and Erastian construct is in play—the state should advance churchly interests and the two worked hand-in-glove in Switzerland, rather than the more severe supremacy of England. This raises the issue of discipline—church and state, the limits, the context and the judges thereof. After all, this is a “magisterial” reformation. Imagine a city or nation purporting to run itself along the lines of God’s Word? Zwingli’s communion was pared down— “radically simplified” (84). Communion is a memorial and thanksgiving for redemptive benefits conferred upon the believer by Christ directly and immediately in Christ’s Presence by Spirit, affirming Christ’s body in heaven, yet present to the believer—unlike assertations from Anglo-Papes-and-Apes. The 1549 Consensus of Zurich will pull the German-Swiss and French-Swiss together on Christ at His sacrament with His people. Bullinger’s Decades is mentioned as well as the Second Helvetic Confession, done with the helicopter theologian hovering over-head, Dr. Peter Vermigli and Theodore Beza.