Luther and the Christ-Centredness of Scripture
CAPTIVE TO THE WORD Martin Luther: Doctor of Sacred Scripture by A. SKEVINGTON WOOD B.A., Ph.D., F.R.Hist.S. "I am bOIIIIII by the Scriptures ••• and my conscima Is capti11e to the Word of God". Martin Luther THE PATERNOSTER PRESS SBN: 85364 o87 4 Copyright© 1969 The Pakrnoster Press AusTRALtA,: Emu Book Agendes Pty., Ltd., 511, Kent Street, Sydney, N.S.W. CANADA: Home Evangel Books Ltd., 25, Hobson Avenue, Toronto, 16 NEW ZEALAND: G. W. Moore, Ltd., J, Campbell Road, P.O. Box 24053, Royal Oak, Auckland, 6 SOUTH AFRICA: Oxford University Press, P.O. Box 1141, Thibault House, Thibault Square, Cape Town Made and Printed in Great Britain for The Paternoster Press Paternoster House 3 Mount Radford Crescent Exeter Devon by Cox & Wyman Limited Fakenham CHAPTER XVI LUTHER AND THE CHRIST-CENTREDNESS OF SCRIPTURE IT IS BEING RECOGNIZED TODAY THAT WHAT HAS been described as Luther's Copernican revolution in theology involved a revision of traditional views about Christ as well as those about salvation. Indeed, the one depended upon the other. This was the pattern ofLuther's own experience. It was only as he came to know Christ as a gracious redeemer, and not just as a 'judge sitting on a rainbow", that he entered into the liberation which none but those who are right with God can enjoy.1 For him, justification by faith did not occur in a vacuum as it were. It had its source and centre in Christ. It is he who is the believer's righteous ness, as well as wisdom, sanctification and redemption (I Cor.
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