That’s a good overview of summerizing the four basic beliefs about communion, but the question is where do many large church denominations stand? Alot of them can’t be labeled as being a part of the Catholic, Calvinist, Lutheran, or Baptist movements. Which of those four ideas do they hold, or do they have their own idea? Some of these denominations include:
* Orthodox Christians
* Adventist Christians
* Anglican / Episcopalian Christians
* Charismatic Christians
* Congregational Christians
* Methodist / Wesleyan Christians
* Quaker Christians
* Waldensian Christians
* Unitarians
* Mormons
I’ll take the easy ones first.
Orthodox - generally the same as Catholic.
Anglican - it depends. (High church Anglo - Catholics retained much of the Catholic theology, low church is more reformed in its theological tradition.) And of course, most of the Episcopal church has strayed so far from Christianity, that the question is probably irrelevant to them.
Charismatic - that covers a lot of ground. I’ll exclude the ‘Charismatic Catholics’. I think you’ll find most charismatics don’t spend a lot of time discussing issues like this; they are more experiential in their worship. To the extent that they do consider it, most would probably adopt the Baptist view.
Congregationalist - came out of the Puritian tradition, and historically would take the Calvinist view. As a practical matter, it is largely post-Christian now - see my comments on the Episcopalians.
Methodist/Wesleyan - came out of the Anglican tradition - generally low church. As such, they would historically tend toward the Reformed view.
Unitarians - not Christian, so doctrinally, ‘none of the above’.
Adventists - Came out of a historical Calvinist background
Quakers - http://www.firstfriendswhittier.org/welcome/sacraments.html
Mormons - I had to look it up. Symbolic/memorial. Closest to Baptist.
And of course, Anglicans, Congregationalists, Adventists, LDS, and Unitarians are welcome to correct, expound and explain.