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Printing reshapes Western Christian learning

Timeline Event · mid-fifteenth century

About this date: 1455 is a conventional marker for the Gutenberg Bible, not the invention date of printing worldwide.

Movable-type printing accelerates the circulation of Scripture, theology, devotional works, and later Reformation arguments across Western Europe.

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Western church history, shown as context rather than doctrinal assent.

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