tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21841592.post2425913410065011237..comments2022-04-27T23:07:59.833-04:00Comments on Conversi ad Dominum: Augustine's Admonition Against a Hidden ChurchFr John W Fentonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01283787316830250866noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21841592.post-19572636201466355822007-11-27T19:31:00.000-05:002007-11-27T19:31:00.000-05:00There is a neat paragraph in Diarmaid MacCulloch's...There is a neat paragraph in Diarmaid MacCulloch's "Reformation: Europe's House Divided 1490-1700":<BR/><BR/>" Erasmus went on fighting, in too bulky and bitter volumes published in 1526 and 1527, in which he showed how Luther had forced him back to reaffirm his loyalty to the imperfect structures of the old Church. "Therefore I will put up with this church until I see a better one; and it will have to put up with me, until I become better." with this weary statement, he was confronting not only Luther, but also his own humanist sympathises like Zwingli or Melanchthon, who had made the irrevocable decision to favour Augustine's doctrine of grace over Augustine's doctrine of the Church."Schützhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05026181010471282505noreply@blogger.com