B.B. Warfield on Augustine and the Reformation

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I have often heard that B.B. Warfield was famous for postulating something about the Reformation being a collision of Augustine’s ecclesiology with his soteriology, but have never been able to find out where he has said this. Anyone know the exact reference?

Also, does anyone know of any works on this proposed dichotomy in Augstine’s thought?

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I’ve found this …

And this quote:
*The Reformation, inwardly considered, was just the ultimate triumph of Augustine’s doctrine of grace over Augustine’s doctrine of the Church" * (B. B. Warfield, Calvin and Augustine, pp. 321-22).

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St Augustine is essentially the ‘break point’ in the history of the Western Church, to whom Catholics and Protestants alike look back to with great regard.

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