Another Catholic critic who can copy from CARM and not know that the original source has the ECF's taken badly out of context. What a shocker!
That's the point with the ECFs....they've been picked over like fruit in a grocery store.
They contradict themselves on a host of issues.
Indeed, you are a case in point of a highly selective picker.
They contradict themselves on a host of issues.
But not on the Eucharist. When a Patristics scholar like Kelly (who without question is one of the foremost 20th century experts) can say of Augustine that "he shared the realism held by almost all his contemporaries and predecessors," then your attempts to make the historical record appear otherwise is rightly called out as dishonest.
So, I ask again, why should we take anything else you claim as credible?