Confessional Inclusion
Calvin himself recognized the need to balance his own particular theological views with those of his contemporaries in such confessional efforts as the Consensus Tigurinus, where the eucharistic teaching was a compromise between Geneva and Zurich. Most of the major confessional documents of the Reformed churches produced in the mid-sixteenth century were conceived with a breadth of definition capable of including diverse individual theologies.
Richard Muller, After Calvin: Studies in the Development of a Theological Tradition (Oxford University Press: New York, 2003), 8