Luther's trip to Rome was the most significant disillusionment of his life.

When he got to Rome, instead of finding a holy city, he found a city that was marked by unprecedented corruption,

and that scandalized this idealistic young monk. Martin Luther didn't have peace with God. He had searched for it in the monastery, but didn't find it.

Perhaps he would find it when he took a pilgrimage to Rome,

known to some as the Holy City.

Welcome to the Tuesday edition of Renewing Your Mind.

I'm your host, Nathan W Bingham. God used Martin Luther an obscure

Augustinian monk to stand up against popes and emperors in defense of the gospel and

I'm thankful the Lord did,

as the good news that he recovered and defended spread like wildfire.

And if you're a believer today, it's this gospel that we believe and proclaim.

But Luther's journey to discovering the good news

would begin with moments of crisis.

So today, Ercei Sprawl will explain the crisis, Luther faced, as he ventured to the city of Rome in 1510.

Here's Dr Sprawl.

In a book I wrote several years ago, entitled The Holiness of God, I included an entire chapter called

The Insanity of Luther. And the reason why I chose that title for the chapter was in the 20th

century there was something of a fashion among scholars to examine the personality and the behavior of Luther from a distance.

And some of those who were involved in the field of psychology and psychoanalysis decided to apply their

trade from over a period of four and a half centuries.

They looked back at the record of Luther's lives to see

whether this man was neurotic or beyond that to the realm of the psychotic because you asked the question

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