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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Athanasius" data-source="post: 1306229" data-attributes="member: 16809">The reformers didn't see themselves as ignoring 1500 years of knowledge. They were well-versed in the church fathers such as Augustine and Athanasius. Thus Calvin, from the Institutes:“Moreover, they unjustly set the ancient fathers against us (I mean the ancient writers of a better age of the church) as if in them they had supporters of their own impiety. If the contest were to be determined by patristic authority, the tide of victory—to put it very modestly—would turn to our side."Calvin was particularly fond of Chrysostom's homilies.The reformers saw themselves as part of the historic communion of saints. They were very historically learned and scholarly. Now, your point is very valid today, when people have little mooring in history. "Book learning" has fallen on hard times throughout the culture.</blockquote>