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But counter-Reformation Roman theology, in its concern to combat Zwingilian symbolism by strong emphasis on the objective reality of the presence, seemed to the Carolines to have neglected the very purpose for which the Eucharist was instituted; the life-giving encounter between the faithful and Christ. Herbert Thorndike perhaps represents best the Carolines in this respect. He affirmed the Real Presence as objective, ‘by virtue of the consecration, not of his faith that receives’, 26 but also spoke of the celebration of the Eucharist as the renewal of the ‘Covenant of Grace’; the Covenant community is one which lives faithfully in the presence of the Lord, whose close relationship enables its members to transform the world.