God’s Continuing Controversy with Unchanged Rome

In March of 1545, less than a year before he died, Martin Luther published the most vehement condemnation of the Roman Catholic papacy that he had ever written, "Against the Roman Papacy, An Institution of the Devil." It was timed to coincide with the opening of the Roman Catholic Council of Trent, the council that was intended to resist the Protestant Reformation. The title itself is condemnation of the Roman Church, inasmuch as the papacy is the Roman Church. But Luther made explicit the...