The Spirit, the Spirits, and the Letter Martin Luther on the
Holy Spirit and the Holy Scriptures In the theology of Martin
Luther, the Holy Spirit (contending for his position among other
spirits) cannot be separated from the external Word in the fixed
and stable form we know as the Holy Scriptures. These Holy
Scriptures belong to a broader matrix of instruments through
which the Holy Spirit deals with people mediately rather than
immediately or by direct revelation to the individual, and
thereby certainly in the church. If you have a current
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read the rest of this article. 1 [ Back ] Martin Luther,
"Scribes," Martin Luthers Werke: Kritische Gesamtausgabe , 60
vols. (Weimar: Böhlau, 1883), 34/II:487,2f. (hereafter WA
50:646, 33ff.; see also the references in Die
Bekenntnisschriften der evangelischlutherischen Kirche , 11th
ed. (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1992), 454 n. 2
(hereafter BSLK ). Luther's imitation of the southern
German/Swiss drawl