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The Gutenberg Bible prints a later canon, including Pauline letters, as a movable-type book

In the 1450s the Mainz Bible, as British Library public pages describe, printed the Latin canon including Paul. It is a print of a later canon, not a first-century autograph and not Luther’s German. In the causal graph this event strengthens Digital Learning Access, a driver that weakens Learning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries) — an improving welfare path.

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In the 1450s the Mainz Bible, as British Library public pages describe, printed the Latin canon including Paul. It is a print of a later canon, not a first-century autograph and not Luther’s German.

Context

Print multiplies both Romans 13 and Galatians’ freedom heading.

Paul the Apostle is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute.

Why it matters

A Gutenberg Bible is not a 64 CE death file.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Paul the Apostle

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.28 · verified

    Named letter-writer as heading of later collections. Editors, popes, reformers, and colonial missions publish the instrument.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.British Library — Gutenberg BibleBritish Library · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.The King James Bible — public-domain EnglishProject Gutenberg · High credibility · verified

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorPaul the Apostle
  2. contributed toFactThe Gutenberg Bible prints a later canon, including Pauline letters, as a movable-type book
  3. strengthensDriverDigital Learning Access
  4. weakensIndicatorLearning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries)

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Factrail. (2026). The Gutenberg Bible prints a later canon, including Pauline letters, as a movable-type book. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/pa-gutenberg-bible-1455

https://factrail.ai/facts/pa-gutenberg-bible-1455

Accessed 15 October 2026.

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