attempt to draw to his side the Philippists of Saxony and Lower Germany. Other works of Westphal occasioned by this controversy are: Epistola Joachimi Westphali, qua breviter respondet ad convicia J. Calvini (1556); Confessio fidei de eucharistiae sacramento, in qua ministri ecclesiarum Saxoniae...astruunt corporis et sanguinis D. n. J. Christi praesentiam in coena sancta, et de libro Calvini ipsis dedicato respondent (Magdeburg, 1557); Justa defensio adversus insignia mendacia J. a Lasco, quae in epistola ad Poloniae regem contra Saxonicas ecclesias sparsit (1557); Apologetica scripta Johannis Westphali, quibus et sanam doctrinam de eucharistia defendit et foedissimas calumnias sacramentariorum diluit (1558); Confutatio aliquot enormium mendaciorum Johannis Calvini (1558); Apologia confessionis de Coena Domini (1558). This book contains a chapter "De adoratione Christi in Eucharistia", where he defends elevation and use of bell during consecration. References External links The Calumnies of Joachim Westphal by John Calvin The Eucharistic Controversies. Calvin and Westphal. History of the Christian Church, Volume VIII (CCEL) Joachim Westphal in the Christian Cyclopedia |- 1510s births 1574 deaths Clergy from Hamburg 16th-century German Lutheran clergy German Lutheran theologians Lutheran Eucharistic theology German male non-fiction writers 16th-century German Protestant theologians 16th-century German male writers 16th-century Lutheran theologians