The printing press was a relatively new invention crucial to the Protestant Reformation's success, as it allowed Lutheran doctrine to be disseminated widely while the Church could neither suppress all copies nor eliminate all printing presses, unlike earlier reform attempts

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the printing press is a relatively new invention and is going to have enormous implications for the protestant reformation... the church was quite effective at finding troublemakers at finding heretical fire brands and eliminating them the problem is that although they could find luther they couldn't find all of his books and they couldn't find all of the printing presses

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The Bible and Western Culture - Luther and the ReformationMichael Sugrue
Created: 8/10/2026, 11:25:36 PM

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