"a fractious movement"

      "Others draw conclusions that set them apart from Lutherans and Zwinglians as well as at odds with Anabaptists[, not to mention, of course, the Catholic Church].  The lay nobleman Caspar Schenckfeld begins as a follower of Luther and helps to establish the Reformation in Liegnitz, Silesia, east of Saxony.  But the Eucharistic controversy leads him to his own sacramentarian understanding of the Lord’s Supper.  He believes Christians should refrain from receiving the Eucharist until a visible moral improvement in their lives makes them worthy of the sacrament.  Schwenckfeld stops receiving the Eucharistic bread in early 1526 and, as it turns out, never receives it again before his death in 1561.  Schenckfeld and others, collectively known as 'spiritualists,' simply take an either-or distinction between matter and spirit and the interior nature of faith to their logical extremes.  In various ways, they emerge from the evangelical movement of the 1520s as yet another expression that shows the diversity of the early Reformation."

     Brad Gregory, Rebel in the ranks:  Martin Luther, the Reformation, and the conflicts that continue to shape our world (New York:  HarperOne, 2017), chap. 3, A fractious movement.