Francke’s Einfältiger Unterricht shows how he even taught “simple individuals” about the right approach to reading Scripture. Through his very practice-oriented text which gives concrete examples he intends to make Scripture more accessible for the less educated. The Pietist’s efforts in printing cheap bibles also contributed to higher physical accessibility of Scripture. In doing so they took Luther’s priesthood of all believers very serious and tried to enable them to live spirituality and faith without the need of a clergy man to do so. But this also implies that some authority is taken away from the latter and the church, which leads to one main point of criticism against the Pietist movement:
Francke’s Einfältiger Unterricht shows how he even taught “simple individuals” about the right approach to reading Scripture. Through his very practice-oriented text which gives concrete examples he intends to make Scripture more accessible for the less educated. The Pietist’s efforts in printing cheap bibles also contributed to higher physical accessibility of Scripture. In doing so they took Luther’s priesthood of all believers very serious and tried to enable them to live spirituality and faith without the need of a clergy man to do so. But this also implies that some authority is taken away from the latter and the church, which leads to one main point of criticism against the Pietist movement: