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Historians and theologians alike have long recognized that at the heart of the sixteenth-century Protestant Reformation were the five solas: sola scriptura, solus Christus, sola gratia, sola fide, and soli Deo gloria. These five solas do not merely summarize what the Reformation was all about but have served to distinguish Protestantism ever since. They set Protestants apart in a unique way as...

view of the sacraments, our focus here is on his general view of grace. Aquinas understood grace as that which brings the creature to glory, an end beyond the one for which he is fitted by mere nature and beyond his ability as a fallen creature. Aquinas is alien territory for many Protestants, but his understanding of grace is helpful, demonstrating that Augustinian understandings of God’s sovereignty were alive and well in the Middle Ages. Chapters 5 and 6 address the time of the Reformation, and
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