Ebook: Long before Luther: tracing the heart of the Gospel from Christ to the Reformation

Introducing the debate -- The reformers and justification -- The church before Augustine -- Augustine and justification -- The church after Augustine -- Tracing the heart of the Gospel from Christ to the Reformation.;Where was the gospel before the Reformation? Contemporary evangelicals often struggle to answer that question. As a result, many Roman Catholics are quick to allege that the Reformation understanding of the gospel simply did not exist before the 1500s. They assert that key Reformation doctrines, like sola fide, were nonexistent in the first fifteen centuries of church history. Rather, they were invented by Martin Luther, John Calvin, and others. That is a serious charge, and one that evangelicals must be ready to answer. If an evangelical understanding of the gospel is only 500 years old, we a.