...diffusion of a popular work. It also meant hasty work, and inaccurate printing. Luther called printing 'God's highest and extremest act of grace, whereby the business of the Gospel is driven forward; it is the last flame before the extinction of the world'. He thought otherwise when he saw what the...

...most effective weapon in their gallant struggle against popes.4 Luther, himself, described printing as 'God's highest and extremest act of grace, whereby the business of the Gospel is driven forward.' It was typical of the Protestant outlook that he also regarded it as 'the last flame before the extinction...

...most effective weapon in their gallant struggle against popes. Luther himself described printing as "God's highest and extremest act of grace, whereby the business of the Gospel is driven forward." From Luther on, the sense of a special blessing conferred on the German nation was associated with...

...was very closely related to the religious reformation in Europe, and Martin Luther referred to it as 'God's highest and extremest act of grace, whereby the business of the Gospel is driven forward'.13 Conditions for the reformation actually came into existence before he launched his protest...

..."how at this moment in history all the arts have come to the light...like the art of book printing, God's highest and extremest act of grace, whereby the business of the Gospel is driven forward". 3 The author of many books, Luther had frequent dealings and frustrations with printers; many failed...

...press. Martin Luther, the most prolific patron of the early German press, proclaimed printing to be "God's highest and extremest act of grace, whereby the business of the Gospel is driven forward." No one put the matter more forcefully than the English reformer John Foxe in his classic Reformation...

...minds of Europe," writes historian Elizabeth Eisenstein. Eventually, Luther himself hailed printing as "God's highest and extremest act of grace, whereby the business of the Gospel is driven forward."28 The Catholic Church responded to the specific theological arguments Luther had raised but...

...themselves were conscious of the importance of printing to their aims. Luther described the press as 'God's highest and extremest act of grace, whereby the business of the Gospel is driven forward.' The Reformation divided Europe into Catholic and Protestant branches of Christianity that were Underpinned...

...all. Consider again the case of the printing press in the 16th century, of which Martin Luther said it was "God's highest and extremest act of grace, whereby the business of the gospel is driven forward".' By placing the word of God on every Christian's kitchen table, the mass-produced book undermined the...

...Aquinas and his Summa and John Calvin in his version of the Scholastic enterprise, the Institutes. 'God's highest and extremest act of grace, whereby the business of the Gospel is driven forward."'2 The subject of Luther's words of praise was not religious but rather technological: printing....