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The difficulty here lies not so much with what Calvin says in his teaching on the Supper, as in the way that much Christological thinking does not take adequate account of the fact that there is no other Christ. It does not take the truth of the bodily resurrection and ascension of Christ with full seriousness. Once this is grasped, Calvin’s eucharistic theology becomes less puzzling, albeit the truth it represents (as the Reformer himself concedes) remains mysterious. But the mystery is no greater than in other aspects of the Spirit’s work.