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A Radical Idea: Bibles in the Common Tongue

This month marks a monumental anniversary. Five hundred years ago this month Martin Luther did something so radical that its effects are felt all over the world—no exaggeration—to this very day. He started his most revolutionary work, the one that above all else was the most dangerous, unleashing on the world a fire of ideas that still grows and burns out of control. In May 1521 Martin Luther sat down to translate the New Testament into his mother tongue, German.

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