Luther and the Eucharist - What Is the Meaning of the Word?

Luther was trained by nominalist scholastics who were committed to voluntarism. So for him, when christ says, this bread is my body,. This should be taken literally, unless it is shown that this is impossible. But thereis no reason god can't make christ's body co present with bread. Luther complains that the svinglians adopt the wrong standard of proof. They want to be given a rational explanation of why something so culus should be believed. But that is not how religion works, says luther. Rather, we should believe whatever we are told unless it is impossible.