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Augustine (354-430), bishop of Hippo in
Algeria
, was the greatest theologian of the
Western
Church
in the age of the early Church Fathers. Few if any of the fathers combined Augustine's profound personal experience of God's saving grace in Jesus Christ with his intellectual brilliance at expounding the theological meaning of that grace. The bishop of Hippo's spiritual influence proved to be enduring, living on through the centuries as a constant source of challenge and renewal to a Church that was always in danger of falling from grace back into works.
Augustine's legacy reached new heights of influence in the 16th century, when the Protestant Reformers called the Church to return, not only to the Bible, but also to Augustine and his theology of grace. Martine Luther, John Calvin and their reforming colleagues were steeped in the writings of Augustine, as were the Puritans and their successors.
This book brings together choice quotations from Augustine on the theme of salvation. Here readers can sample of themselves what one of the masterminds of Christianity had to say about creation, the fall, original sin, free will, law and grace, incarnation and atonement, the new life in Christ, predestination, and the perseverance of the saints. It is a profound, radical and vital message that today's Church desperately needs to hear again if she is to recover her spiritual and theological health.
Nick Needham is a Londoner by birth and upbringing. He studied theology at new College,
Edinburgh
University
, where he specialized in Church History. He also taught a course at
New
College
on the life and work of the Swiss Reformer Ulrich Zwingli, at the same time completing his PhD thesis on the nineteenth-century Scottish theologian Thomas Erskine of Linlathen. he then taught Systematic Theology at the
Scottish
Baptist
College
in
Glasgow
for several years before spending a semester at the
Samuel
Bill
Theological
College
, where he taught Church History. After a period as assistant pastor in a church in north
London
, he moved to the
Highland
Theological
College
, Dingwall, where he teaches Church History. He is the author of
2000 YEARS OF CHRIST'S POWER,
a history of the Christian Church, parts one and two of which are available from Grace Publications.
All Christians need to be familiar with this material.
