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Apostle From Africa: Life and Thought of Augustine of Hippo
Apostle From Africa: Life and Thought of Augustine of Hippo
by David Bentley-Taylor
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Augustine was outstanding amongst Christian thinkers, in the 4th and 5th centuries A.D. All around the Mediterranean, leading men hung on his words, yet at times his errors were deplorable, even horrifying. Yet Augustine grew out of this to become a man of immense lasting influence on church history. One of the most remarkable features of Augustine's influence is the fact that it flows into radically opposing religious movements. He is cherished as one of the fathers of the Roman Catholic Church, and yet it was Augustine who contributed so much to even the foundational doctrines which brought forth the Reformation - not only because Luther was an Augustinian monk, or that Calvin quoted Augustine more than any other theologian, but because the Reformation witnessed the ultimate triumph of Augustine's doctrine of grace.
