Why I'm Protestant: Dr. Gavin Ortlund Interview

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5 • 921 Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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In today’s episode, I chat with Dr. Gavin Ortlund about his new book, “What It Means To Be Protestant: The Case For an Always-Reforming Church.”

These days many evangelicals are exploring the more sacramental, liturgical, and historically-conscious church traditions, including Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy. This hunger for historical rootedness is a welcome phenomenon--but unfortunately, many assume that this need can only be met outside of Protestant contexts.

In What it Means to Be Protestant, Gavin Ortlund draws from both his scholarly work in church history and his personal experience in ecumenical engagement to offer a powerful defense of the Protestant tradition. Retrieving classical Protestant texts and arguments, he exposes how many of the contemporary objections leveled against Protestants are rooted in caricature. Ultimately, he shows that historic Protestantism offers the best pathway to catholicity and historical rootedness for Christians today.

Dr. Ortlund's Book: https://amzn.to/3N2ZqiU

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0:00.0	Life Audio
0:09.0	You are listening to the Beckett Cook show with your host Beckett Cook. For more information about Beckett and
0:15.5	his ministry, visit his website at Beckett Cook.com. To help support the
0:21.3	podcast, visit Patreon.com slash the Beckett Cook Show.
0:26.0	Please consider subscribing to the podcast and leaving a five-star rating. rating. Hey guys, welcome to the show.
0:40.0	Today my guest is Gavin Ortland. You may remember him. He's been on my the show
0:45.0	today my guest is Gavin Ortland you may remember him he's been on my show before you might want to check out that episode and we're going to talk about his new book
0:50.0	what it means to be Protestant.
0:53.0	The case for an always reforming church.
0:57.0	Gavin Orland is a church historian.
0:59.0	He also has his own podcast called Truth Unites, and I'm excited to talk about this book, but first a word from our sponsor.
1:07.0	Welcome, Gavin Orland.
1:10.0	Hey, great to be here, Brackett. Thanks for having me. So the book is what it means to be Protestant.
1:16.0	And in the introduction, the first, actually the first sentence of the introduction is,
1:21.0	I never set out to defend Protestantism I got sort of pulled into it how so well
1:28.4	I started the YouTube channel which some who are watching this video may be familiar with back in August of 2020, a couple
1:35.5	of months into the pandemic, never really thinking it would be a huge thing.
1:41.0	I just thought, you know, I was working on apolog apologetics I was writing a book about the
1:44.4	existence of God and I thought this would be a great platform to extend some of that
1:48.7	work and try to reach more people who might not read the book and come to church but maybe through YouTube I could reach them.
1:55.2	And then over time, long story short is I just got sort of pulled into just honestly, I think I can
2:01.1	say a pastoral burden of feeling that many people
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