Matthias Flacius Illyricus

Lutheran theologian who held the extreme view that the image of God in man was substantially corrupted by sin, transforming man into an image of the devil.

Chapter I (The Six Days of Creation)

• Verse 26: Let Us Make Man in Our Image and Likeness — Named for the impious opinion that the image of God was substantially corrupted by sin

  "Impious therefore and foolish is the opinion of Matthias Flacius Illyricus the Lutheran, who says that the image of God in man was so corrupted by sin that man was substantially transformed into a living and substantial image of the devil"