Discuss Johannes Gutenberg's role in the Reformation
What will be an ideal response?
Essay responses should include these points:
• Gutenberg is given credit for publishing the first Bible for circulation, the Gutenberg Bible.
• This type of press, with movable typeset letters, could produce identical copies of the same work.
• Gutenberg is given credit for the easy distribution of the biblical text from Luther's translation, equaling more than a million copies, many in vernacular German.
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