Article. Thomas F. Martin, O. S. A. – Paulus autem apostolus dicit: Augustine’s Pauline Polemic against the Donatists.
How formative was the Donatist controversy in shaping what we may call “Augustine’s Paulinism”? While the Augustine of the Donatist controversy is more often than not explored under the lens of ecclesiology, sacramental theology, and/or church/state questions, anyone who takes up Augustine’s anti-Donatist writings ought to be immediately struck by…