Reformation Issue: Augustine

Although it might seem a bit strange, at first blush, to devote the annual Reformation issue to a church father who died almost 1100 years before the great sixteenth century Reformation, we have good grounds for doing so. Our two main reasons are expressed well by the noted church historian Philip Schaff. First, Augustine's theology was foundational for the Reformation. In his History of the Christian Church, Schaff contends that "Augustine is, of all the fathers, nearest to evangelical...