Christian History Magazine—Issue 67: St. Augustine: Sinner, Bishop, Saint
Overview
He was a brilliant theologian whose mind raged over a vast array of issues with incomparable depth and dexterity. He was a regal bishop, an ecclesiastical authority, who refined the teachings of the church. And he was a fallen human being who struggled with common weaknesses: sex, vanity, self-recriminations, anger and depression. Christian History & Biography offers this issue as an informed look at the everyday life of St. Augustine. History has built him into an untouchable thinker and a legendary mind, but he was first and foremost a man—a human who was seeking the living God.
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Top Highlights
“Wycliffe, Luther, Calvin, and other reformers reaffirmed Augustine’s doctrine of predestination, inherited depravity, and the sovereignty of grace—though Anabaptists and other radical reformers rejected the same (but without affirming Pelagianism).” (source)
“Augustine’s ideas became the Catholic church’s bulwarks against all forms of sectarian and schismatic reform. Even the ‘magisterial’ reformers (Luther, Zwingli, Calvin, Cranmer) accepted most of Augustine’s answers to Donatism, though they all rejected ex opere operato, arguing that recipients of the Eucharist must have faith for grace to be effective. The Anabaptists, on the other hand, rejected these ideas and repeated Donatism’s insistence on a pure, or at least regenerate, church.” (source)
“Romans where Paul demands that the servant of Christ should renounce all voluptuous pleasures: ‘Let us live honorably, as in the day, not in reveling and drunkenness, not in debauchery and licentiousness, not in quarreling and jealousy. Instead, put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires’ (13:13–14).” (source)
“Because of marriage’s sacramental character, Augustine allowed divorce only for adultery and, so long as the former spouse (or, interestingly, the dismissed concubine) lived, he categorically forbade remarriage as a damnable sin.” (source)
“run-of-the-mill weaknesses: sex, vanity, self-recriminations, a hot temper, and bouts with despair.” (source)
- Title: Christian History Magazine—Issue 67: St. Augustine: Sinner, Bishop, Saint
- Author: Christian History Institute
- Series: Christian History Magazine
- Publisher: Christianity Today
- Print Publication Date: 2000
- Logos Release Date: 2009
- Era: era:Contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Church fathers; Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo › Biography; Fathers of the church
- Resource ID: LLS:CH67
- Resource Type: Magazine
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-10-05T16:40:40Z
