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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...

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). Most theologians define their positions in relation to Augustine’s doctrines. Almost all of them can appeal to something in the great North African church father, and almost all of them neglect some aspects of his teaching in favor of others. But no one