In his celebrated lecture on the Confessions of St. Augustine the late Professor Adolf von Harnac... more In his celebrated lecture on the Confessions of St. Augustine the late Professor Adolf von Harnack decl "Between St. Paul the Apostle and Luther the Reformer Christian Church has possessed no one who could measure self with Augustine; and in comprehensive influence no is to be compared with him."2 Not only was this North A bishop the chief luminary of Western Christendom in hi generation, but through his writings he fairly dominate philosophy, the theology, and the ethics of the Middle he stimulated the medieval mystics, alike those who acc and many of those who rejected the traditional dogmas; spired both the so-called forerunners of the Reformatio the leading humanists of the Renaissance; and in large m he moulded the evangelical faith and piety of the Luther especially of the Reformed churches from the days of founders down to our own times. But in no realm of tho or life was his influence more potent or historically significant than in that characteristic development of th tions of church and state that marked the millenial peri ginning, less than half a century after his death, with th of the Western Empire in the year 476. He was the weig authority to whom emperors and popes could and did ap for support in their age-long contest for the supreme p the former to vindicate their independence in secular af and the latter to prove their lordship over all other ear potentates, whether temporal or spiritual.3 Augustine wrote no treatise dealing specifically with 1 The presidential address delivered at the meeting of the Society in Wa ington on December 27, 1934. 2 Monasticism: Its Ideals and History: and The Confessions of St. Augustine (Crown Theological Library, xxviii), p. 123. 3 Cf. K. Mirbt, Die Stellung Augustins in der Publizistik des gregorianischen Kirchenstreits, Leipzig, 1888. He shows the thoroughly partisan use that both factions made of Augustine's often purely incidental and never fully developed statements.
In his celebrated lecture on the Confessions of St. Augustine the late Professor Adolf von Harnac... more In his celebrated lecture on the Confessions of St. Augustine the late Professor Adolf von Harnack decl "Between St. Paul the Apostle and Luther the Reformer Christian Church has possessed no one who could measure self with Augustine; and in comprehensive influence no is to be compared with him."2 Not only was this North A bishop the chief luminary of Western Christendom in hi generation, but through his writings he fairly dominate philosophy, the theology, and the ethics of the Middle he stimulated the medieval mystics, alike those who acc and many of those who rejected the traditional dogmas; spired both the so-called forerunners of the Reformatio the leading humanists of the Renaissance; and in large m he moulded the evangelical faith and piety of the Luther especially of the Reformed churches from the days of founders down to our own times. But in no realm of tho or life was his influence more potent or historically significant than in that characteristic development of th tions of church and state that marked the millenial peri ginning, less than half a century after his death, with th of the Western Empire in the year 476. He was the weig authority to whom emperors and popes could and did ap for support in their age-long contest for the supreme p the former to vindicate their independence in secular af and the latter to prove their lordship over all other ear potentates, whether temporal or spiritual.3 Augustine wrote no treatise dealing specifically with 1 The presidential address delivered at the meeting of the Society in Wa ington on December 27, 1934. 2 Monasticism: Its Ideals and History: and The Confessions of St. Augustine (Crown Theological Library, xxviii), p. 123. 3 Cf. K. Mirbt, Die Stellung Augustins in der Publizistik des gregorianischen Kirchenstreits, Leipzig, 1888. He shows the thoroughly partisan use that both factions made of Augustine's often purely incidental and never fully developed statements.
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