and wine meant that Christ’s body and blood were literally in the hands of the priest on the altar of the church. Increasingly, one’s whole relationship to God focused on coming and eating, not metaphorically, not spiritually, but physically. As we have seen, one of the major themes of the English Reformation was the repudiation of this teaching. Archbishop Cranmer in his Answer to Gardiner said, “They [the Romanists] say that Christ is corporally [physically] under or in the form of bread and wine;