Tommy Nelson
Tommy Nelson taught a series on Church History. You can purchase it here.
Tommy Nelson states: “The Reformation is a reforming of Pauline thought as articulated by Augustine.” (Church History: The Age of Imperial Christianity)
Of course, Augustine is where John Calvin got his “Calvinism.” John Calvin had stated: “Augustine is so much at one with me that, if I wished to write a confession of my faith, it would abundantly satisfy me to quote wholesale from his writings.” (Concerning the Eternal Predestination of God, p.63)
So essentially, the point is, according to Tommy Nelson, that the Reformation was the revival of Augustinianism, or at least the Calvinistic aspects of it. I cannot imagine a worse example of revisionism. How, of good conscience, can you hijack the entire Reformation? The Protestant Reformation was obviously a rejection of Catholicism, and by no means a referendum on Calvinism. Not one of the 95 articles of Luther was anything distinctly Calvinist.
