217. How to Tear the West Apart
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217. How to Tear the West Apart
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A miner’s son, decided one day, to nail 95 thesis to the door of All Saints Church in Wittenberg in the year of our lord 1517. It seems unlikely he intended to split his church, the Catholic, universal church, into a bewildering multiplicity of new religions and sects.
And yet, trained in the Devotio Moderna’s way of taking action and responsibility, for his own salvation, he ran into problems.
What Luther did with the 95 theses, or 95 propositions if you prefer, was a common garden variety way of opening an argument and inviting the university to participate. Some even say the nailing to the door part is just dramatic enhancement, never happened, he just circulated some hand written stuff around campus, in the conventional way. This episode is about dramatic enhancement, so anyway. Well he had copies made and sent them around to friends, who apparently copied them some more and sent them around some more until “Soon, Luther had the uneasy surprise of receiving them back from Southern Germany, PRINTED.”