joke had enough truth behind it to make Protestants wince. The disaster of the Peasants’ War and the later debacle of the Anabaptist kingdom of Münster prompted Protestant reformers to develop programs for pastoral training and theological resources for those charged with handling the Word of God. A third issue related to how the Bible was used in the life and worship of the Protestant churches. For the Bible was meant to be not only read, studied, translated, memorized and meditated on. It was also