Description: These days many evangelicals are exploring the more sacramental, liturgical, and historically-conscious church traditions, including Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy. In What it Means to Be Protestant, Gavin Ortlund draws from historical Protestant texts to defend Protestantism against the objections and caricatures often leveled against it.
Brief description:
Gavin Ortlund (PhD, Fuller Theological Seminary) serves as President of Truth Unites, Visiting Professor of Historical Theology at Phoenix Seminary, and Theologian-in-Residence at Immanuel Church. He is the author of numerous books, including Why God Makes Sense in a World That Doesn't and What It Means to Be Protestant. He and his wife, Esther, have five children.
Review Quotes: 'Gavin Ortlund is one of the most effective defenders and articulators of Protestant theology at work in the world today. His YouTube defenses of Protestant perspectives are viewed by hundreds of thousands. More importantly, they're clear, fair-minded, and reliable. Protestants maintain a wide array of views on how catholic and traditional Protestants should be. But if you want a mainstream view--one that offers a good summary of Protestant distinctives from a Reformed point of view--this book is for you. I pray that God will use it to help all of us understand the gospel more clearly and follow the Lord Jesus more courageously.'-- Doug Sweeney, Dean and Professor of Divinity, Beeson Divinity School