ABSTRACT
The Forty-Two Articles began with unusually strong statements on the Trinity. Christ truly rose from the dead, and took again his body, complete with flesh and bones, and he ascended into heaven. The Henrician Canons were redrafted into a fresh document, later named by John Foxe as the Reformatio Legum Ecclesiasticarum (the reformation of the ecclesiastical laws). Edward's death and the failure to exclude Mary from the throne were disasters that destroyed Cranmer and threatened the survival of his Church. From the cathedral chapter at Canterbury came the final series of crises that resulted in Cranmer's arrest and his ultimate destruction. Cranmer was sentenced to be hanged, drawn, and quartered as a traitor. The Oxford disputations were also meant to expose the opinions of Cranmer, Ridley, and Latimer as heretical. The Oxford disputations were humiliating ordeals that were shams of impartial inquires. Shortly after Ridley and Latimer's execution, Stephen Gardiner died after a long illness.
