LEIPZIG, Colloquy of, conference held in Leipzig by the German Lutherans and Calvin ists 3-23 March 1631 for the purpose of secur ing harmony between the two churches, and a resultant union to resist the execution of the Edict of Restitution. The Landgrave, William of Hesse, the Elector Christian William of Brandenburg and the Elector John George met at Leipzig accompanied by their leading the ologians Johannes Bergius, Theophilus Neu berger and Johannes Crocius of the Reformed faith, and Matthias Hoe, Polycarp Leyser and Heinrich Hopffner of the Saxon Lutherans. The Reformed party proposed the Confession of Augsburg as a basis of discussion, announc ing their willingness to sign it as it stood in the Saxon form published by Elector John George of Saxony (1628). The articles of the Confession were taken up and unanimity, of opinion was found to exist on articles v-vii and xii-xviii, and their differ ences on i-ii were declared immaterial. The third article, on Christology, found a wide difference of opinion, and they compromised on a definite statement of their separate be liefs. The Lutherans maintained that the human and divine natures of Christ were iden tical in possessing omniscience and omnipo tence, while the Reformed party denied that Christ as a man possessed these attributes.
They agreed on the fourth article, the Re formed theologians confirming the Lutherans in their belief that Christ did not come to save all men; and on the ninth article, con cerning baptism, they also agreed after making some additions. Upon the tenth, however, an agreement was found impossible and it was treated in the same manner as the third. The Reformed party maintained that participation of the blood and body of Christ in the Eu charist is by faith while the Lutherans held to the belief of actual physical participation. The remaining articles Were agreed to, and as the conference was private, only four copies of the protocol were made, one for the faculty of Leipzig and one for each of the princes pat ronizing the meeting. Later, however, reports of the conference were published in England, France, Switzerland, Holland and Sweden. While the meetings were conducted in an amicable spirit and many close points of agree-, meat found, the conference had no lasting re sults in the way of closer understanding or union.