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Christian History Magazine—Issue 67: St. Augustine: Sinner, Bishop, Saint is unavailable, but you can change that!

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...

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. Of human bondage