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Although Luther was the most prolific and popular author, there were many others on both sides of the debate. Tetzel, the indulgence-seller, was one of the first to respond to him in print, firing back with his own collection of theses. Others embraced the new pamphlet format to weigh in on the merits of Luther's arguments, both for and against, like argumentative bloggers.
Luther, who refused to let any challenge go unanswered, took a mere two days to produce his own pamphlet in response, giving as good as he got. You cite no scripture. You give no reasons. Being able to follow and discuss such back-and-forth exchanges of views, in which each author quoted his opponent's words in order to dispute them, gave people a thrilling and unprecedented sense of participation in a vast, distributed debate. Arguments in their own social circles about the merits of Luther's views could be seen as part of a far wider discourse, both spoken and printed.
Many pamphlets called upon the reader to discuss their contents with others and read them aloud to the illiterate. People read and discussed pamphlets at home with their families, in groups with their friends, and in inns and taverns.
The Test Commandment 3. Are you taking time to thank God for the blessings he provides? Pinning a list of propositions to the church door, which doubled as the university notice board, was a standard way to announce a public debate. German translations, which could be read by a wider public than Latin-speaking academics and clergy, soon followed and quickly spread throughout the German-speaking lands. Visst er kirken hellig, men den er ikke desto mindre en synderinne. The protesters' message spreads virally through social networks, making it impossible to suppress and highlighting the extent of public support for revolution.
Luther's pamphlets were read out at spinning bees in Saxony and in bakeries in Tyrol. In some cases entire guilds of weavers or leather-workers in particular towns declared themselves supporters of the Reformation, indicating that Luther's ideas were being propagated in the workplace. One observer remarked in that better sermons could be heard in the inns of Ulm than in its churches, and in Basel in there were complaints about people preaching from books and pamphlets in the town's taverns.
It was not just words that travelled along the social networks of the Reformation era, but music and images too. The news ballad, like the pamphlet, was a relatively new form of media. It set a poetic and often exaggerated description of contemporary events to a familiar tune so that it could be easily learned, sung and taught to others. They were distributed in the form of printed lyric sheets, with a note to indicate which tune they should be sung to.
Once learned they could spread even among the illiterate through the practice of communal singing. Both reformers and Catholics used this new form to spread information and attack their enemies. Therein he has reigned in a deadly fashion and has seduced uncountably many souls. Now move along, you damned son, you Whore of Babylon. You are the abomination and the Antichrist, full of lies, death and cunning. Woodcuts were another form of propaganda. The combination of bold graphics with a smattering of text, printed as a broadsheet, could convey messages to the illiterate or semi-literate and serve as a visual aid for preachers.
The best of them were produced by Luther's friend Lucas Cranach. Luther's opponents responded with woodcuts of their own: Amid the barrage of pamphlets, ballads and woodcuts, public opinion was clearly moving in Luther's favour. Most of the 60 or so clerics who rallied to the pope's defence did so in academic and impenetrable Latin, the traditional language of theology, rather than in German.
Where Luther's works spread like wildfire, their pamphlets fizzled.
Attempts at censorship failed, too. Printers in Leipzig were banned from publishing or selling anything by Luther or his allies, but material printed elsewhere still flowed into the city. Luther's enemies likened the spread of his ideas to a sickness. To use the modern idiom, Luther's message had gone viral. From Wittenberg to Facebook. In the early years of the Reformation expressing support for Luther's views, through preaching, recommending a pamphlet or singing a news ballad directed at the pope, was dangerous.
By stamping out isolated outbreaks of opposition swiftly, autocratic regimes discourage their opponents from speaking out and linking up. A collective-action problem thus arises when people are dissatisfied, but are unsure how widely their dissatisfaction is shared, as Zeynep Tufekci, a sociologist at the University of North Carolina, has observed in connection with the Arab spring.
The dictatorships in Egypt and Tunisia, she argues, survived for as long as they did because although many people deeply disliked those regimes, they could not be sure others felt the same way. The same thing happened in the Reformation. The surge in the popularity of pamphlets in , the vast majority of them in favour of reform, served as a collective signalling mechanism.
Modern society tends to regard itself as somehow better than previous ones, and technological advance reinforces that sense of superiority. But history teaches us that there is nothing new under the sun. Modern digital networks may be able to do it more quickly, but even years ago the sharing of media could play a supporting role in precipitating a revolution. Today's social-media systems do not just connect us to each other: Dec 17th From the print edition of The Economist. Daily devotion from Romans 3: Through the law we become conscious of sin.
Look at the Picture. I stumbled downstairs, turned on the television and began surfing through the channels. It was an old movie entitled, The Picture of Dorian Gray. Dorian Gray is a handsome young man who also happens to be a fine, upstanding citizen. Dorian takes the picture home and hangs it on his wall.
As time goes on, two things happen. For one, Dorian Gray begins to slide into a life of immorality. As he does, it seems as though he never has to suffer any consequences for his behavior. But the other thing that happens is truly chilling. He discovers that the more he drifts into immorality, the uglier his picture becomes. Finally, the picture troubles him so much that he takes the picture upstairs into the attic and covers it with a cloth. Dorian Gray has by now slipped into a dark lifestyle of hedonism and apathy and cruelty. But again, it appears as though he never suffers any consequences.
In fact, even though many years have passed, Dorian Gray looks as though he has not aged a day.
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Then, one night, Dorian Gray decides to look at his picture. He climbs the stairs, enters the attic, approaches the picture, and pulls down the cloth. From the attic of that house comes the sound of a scream and a great crash. Then all is quiet. I may even convince myself that putting myself first in life is the only way to live. There I see the ugliness of my sin. There I see the full view of my corruption.
There I see the desperate lostness of my soul. But the horror of my picture is not the end. For now Jesus has come.
His blood has washed me clean. The ugliness is gone. Forgiveness and life have taken its place. Bring me to repentance. New Delhi Nova Iorque: Pacific, Pacific Ocean Ohm: Titan Torre de Eiffel: Vatican, the Vatican Veneza: Evening Star, Venus X: Alpinist, climber, mountain climber, mountaineer alquemila: The Hague a despeito de: European, white man brando: American, US citizen cidra: Don Juan, woman-chaser dom-quixote: Christian name nome de batisto: Wednesday quarta-feira de cinzas: If you do so,.
Please save me , " God will bless u s w ith His redemption. Por favor, sal va -me. I bel ie v e God will bless t h e arrangement made between us. W h e n God m a de a promise to Abraham, because he had no one greater by whom to swear, he swore by himself, saying , ' I will s u re l y bless y o u and multiply you. I believe th a t God h a s blessed all His churches, the congregations of the born-again, around the world a n d will bless t h em forever.
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