2. “Nothing is more difficult for the modern student
to comprehend than an age of slow
communication.… we are so bombarded with
words that come at us… out of the air…so loaded
down with books and newsprint and advertising”
that the “slow and silent” past is on the far side
of “a gulf across which we can no longer see…”
(Burlingame, 1938)

3. Moore’s Law:
Chip transistor capacity doubling every
two years for past four decades

4. Luther called the printing press
"God's highest and extremest act
of grace, whereby the business of
the Gospel is driven forward."
“The press created the modern world—a place
where debates among scholars and leaders are
referred to the court of public opinion.”
(p. 380 in THE WEST)

5. 1. Writing—3000 BC--“more important than all the
battles ever fought and all the constitutions ever
devised.” (Breasted, 1926)
2. Paper—c. 200 BC---“Paper is the instrument of
liberty….There is no liberty without paper…”
(H. Voorn, 1968)
3. Printing Press—1450—”No
technological development in any
field is credited with a greater social
and political impact than the
invention of the printing press….”
(Hanson 2008, p. 14)

6. • Individual Freedom of Conscience
• First Mass Media Event (printing
press) and propaganda

7. /
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2012645712
Library of Congress
The splendor of Rome (left) contrasted with a bare Protestant
Chapel in colonial Virginia, reflects vastly different interpretations of
the Word of God.

8. http://www.tablespace.net/maps2/lowres/MLatWorms.jpg
Click on the links below to view two film versions:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xQsCtpcj_E
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5P7QkHCfaI

9. “He shattered faith in
authority, because he
restored the authority of
faith.
“He transformed parsons into
laymen, because he
transformed laymen into
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/master/pnp
parsons….” /cph/3a10000/3a18000/3a18700/
3a18737u.tif
(A CRITICISM OF THE HEGELIAN PHILOSOPHY OF RIGHT)

10. “…95 sledge-hammer
blows directed against
the most flagrant
ecclesiastical abuse of
the age.”
”If I Had a Hammer”
(T.M. Lindsay, Britannica, 1911) 1517 Wittenberg—
http://thecalloftheland.files.wordpress.co
m/2011/03/martin_luther_9.jpg

11. Major source of church income since 13th
century, but “indulgence hyper-inflation” by
1500
Engravings like the “Mass of St. Gregory” were
sacred objects themselves; the inscription
promised relief from 20,000 years in
Purgatory—later increased without approval to
45,000 years!
In 1500 estimated 1,064,037 years of
indulgences were available (while earth itself
only 6,000 years old)

12. The Pope—with a devil in
his stomach—counting
money, while his beastly
cardinals sell indulgences
amid dancing flames
(British Museum)
http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database/searc
h_object_image.aspx?currentpage=17&toadbc=ad&objectid=3127298&asset_id=6
81816&images=on&orig=%2Fresearch%2Fsearch_the_collection_database.aspx&
partid=1&searchtext=apocalypse&fromadbc=ad&numpages=10

13. “Christianographie;
or, The description of
the multitude and
sundry sorts of
Christians in the
world, not subject to the
Pope…”
http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc2.ark:/13960/t3hx1
8r5j

14. Luther man of the Book and the Pen
Pamphlets, books, essays, prayers, hymns
“A Mighty Fortress is Our God”
click the link below to view the video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Y-_TsRjm5Y
http://www.britishmuseum.org/researc
h/search_the_collection_database/sear
ch_object_image.aspx?objectId=144887
3&partId=1&searchText=luther&fromA
DBC=ad&toADBC=ad&orig=%2fresearch
%2fsearch_the_collection_database.asp
x&numPages=10&currentPage=6&asset
_id=84433

15. http://pages.uoregon.edu/dluebke/Reformations441/LutherinPrint.html

16. http://www.economist.com/node/21541719/print
To hear an editor from the ECONOMIST talk about how the parallels
between the way Luther used the new printing press and other
communications methods, to the leaders of the “Arab Spring” in 2011.
Click the link below read the article.
http://www.economist.com/node/21541719

17. •Interpreted Bible literally, not
metaphorically
•Though his poetic translation
required abandoning literal meanings
of Hebrew words.
•Luther’s vernacular Bible most
important book in history of German
language
http://ora-
web.swkk.de/digimo_online/digimo.entry?sour
•Key to creating a common tongue ce=digimo.Digitalisat_anzeigen&a_id=4792&p_
ab=0

18. “even shoemakers and women and
every kind of unlearned
person…read it most eagerly as the
font of all truth….In a few months…
they did not blush to dispute about Johannes Cochlaeus,
the faith and the Gospel…with Luther’s bitter adversary
priests and monks…even with http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/com
mons/e/e1/Johannes-Cochlaeus.jpg
Masters and Doctors of Sacred
Theology.”
(Johannes Cochlaeus)

19. Devil defecates into the
mouth of Cochlaeus, he in
turn defecates papist books
and pamphlets consumed
by the kneeling
priests, delighting dancing
devils and horrifying the
faithful.
(Yale University)
http://divdl.library.yale.edu/dl/OneItem.aspx?qc=AdHoc&q=3100

20. Luther as apocalyptic monster with
seven heads.
Left to right:
Doctor,
Satanic monk
Turkish infidel
Mob preacher
Fanatic (hornets in hair)
Pretend Pope
Wild man with club Title-page to
Cochlaeus, 'Septiceps Lutherus',
Leipzig: Valentin Schumann, 1529.
Woodcut and letterpress
http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database/search_o
bject_details.aspx?queryAll=Terms%2F!!%2FOR%2F!!%2F16590%2F!%2F%2F!%2Fm
onk%2Fnun%2F!%2F%2F!!%2F%2F!!!%2F&objectId=1434835&partId=1&searchText
=europe&fromDate=1500&fromADBC=ad&toDate=1750&toADBC=ad&numpages=1
0&images=on&orig=%2Fresearch%2Fsearch_the_collection_database.aspx&current
Page=1

21. The monster Pope and his other
six heads—monks, bishops and
cardinals—ooze out of a locked
indulgence chest, underneath
which is the Devil himself.
Inscription on the indulgence
certificate hanging from the
cross reads: “A sack full of
indulgences for cash.”
http://www.zeno.org/Kunstwerke/B/Deutscher%20Meister%20der%201.%20H%E4lf
te%20des%2016.%20Jahrhunderts:%20Siebenk%F6pfiges

22. “The dead pope and clerics
lying amongst the rubble of
a collapsing church” with
devils building, the
emperor and merchants
looking on from the left.”
(British Museum)
http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database/search_o
bject_image.aspx?objectId=1435914&partId=1&searchText=Sebastian+Meyer&from
ADBC=ad&toADBC=ad&orig=%2fresearch%2fsearch_the_collection_database.aspx&
numPages=10&currentPage=2&asset_id=83134

23. Cardinal, Devil, Pope and
Monk at the foot of the table
try in vain to blow out the
flame of the Reformation.
Luther writing at the head of
the table, with other
Protestant leaders.
http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database/search_o
bject_details.aspx?objectid=1673223&partid=1&output=People%2f!!%2fOR%2f!!%2
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24. Implicit in Luther’s decree of “by faith alone” is
the right of every human being to control their
own spiritual and personal destiny
Who had the right to call another a heretic, if the
ultimate test of salvation was in the heart?
Every man a pope, every man a king!

25. “…individualism and civil rights
were in the DNA of
Protestantism, in which
redemption depends on
personal response to the
mighty acts of God in
Christ….”
Martin Luther King, Jr.,
1929-1968
(Fernandez-Armesto and Wilson,
http://rolexblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/martin-
1996, p. 288) luther-king-jr-day-in-usa.html