Why Do Protestants Convert?

Mortification of Spin

Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals

Religion & Spirituality

4.4 • 853 Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Many of the best and brightest Protestant thinkers have converted to Roman Catholicism in recent decades. Some have found Protestantism shallow in doctrine, history, ethics, and worship. Chris Castaldo, co-author of Why Do Protestants Convert? sits down with Carl and Todd to discuss the psychological, theological, and sociological factors behind these conversions. As someone who has had conversations with those who have converted from Protestantism to Catholicism or, in some cases, Eastern Orthodoxy as well, very often in my conversations with them, theology is not the first thing. Oftentimes [there are] other issues that they will name first, like the historical rootedness or the reverence that they found or the beauty that they found in the Roman Catholic or Eastern Orthodox traditions. – Todd Pruitt Although many converts’ criticisms of contemporary Protestantism may be warranted, Chris points out that historic Protestantism contains the answers to these objections and the resources for a Protestant renewal. Thanks to the generosity of the Davenant Institute, we had two copies of Why Do Protestants Convert? to give to our listeners. Congratulations for Jennifer W. from Southern Pines, NC and Nicholas R. from Plantation, FL! Show Notes: Chris’ article on the state of the Roman Catholic Church: https://mereorthodoxy.com/is-rome-a-true-church

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0:00.0	Welcome to Mortification of Spin, a casual conversation about things that count with Carl Truman and Todd Pruitt, a podcast of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals.
0:29.2	Let's join this week's conversation.
0:31.6	Thank you. Welcome to Mortification of Spin.
0:53.1	I'm your host, Carl Truman, a professor of biblical and religious studies at Grove City College in beautiful Western Pennsylvania.
1:00.6	And here, as always, with my good friend and co-host, the Reverend Todd Pruitt, pastor of Covenant Presbyterian Church in Harrisonburg, Virginia, which is a congregation of the Presbyterian Church in America.
1:15.1	Good to see you, Todd.
1:16.1	Good to see you, Carl.
1:16.9	Now, I do have a question for you, Carl.
1:19.4	As you were naming my church, you said Covenant Presbyterian.
1:23.2	Now, is that just, is there something, because we're PCA, is that just like a reflexive,
1:30.0	it's like you almost don't want to say we're Presbyterian because I'm PCA? Is that, is that what
1:34.6	that is? Well, I was going to say it was a congregation of the PCA, but I wanted people to know
1:38.5	it was a Presbyterian congregation of PCA, because we know that a lot of PCA churches, you have to search long and hard on their
1:44.9	websites to find anything Presbyterian or anything to do with their denomination.
1:50.1	True, true.
1:50.7	It is actually on our sign out of the street.
1:53.2	So, yeah.
1:53.7	It's, yeah, it is fascinating to me how many Presbyterians are embarrassed about being
1:58.3	Presbyterian, but I know that you're not one of them.
2:01.6	Absolutely not. I'm a convert to Presbyterianism, so I'm actually excited about it.
2:05.6	I helped convert you.
2:06.6	I see you.
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