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Review of Gavin Ortlund’s What it Means to be Protestant
Is Protestantism truly the most “catholic” form of Christianity? This question is a central theme of Gavin Ortlund’s recent book What it Means to be Protestant. Ortlund has, in the last few years, become one of the leading Protestant apologists in the English speaking world. His ministry Truth Unites seeks to “Promote Gospel assurance through…
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Divinely Simple Apologetics
Many contemporary Protestant analytic philosophers of religion deny the doctrine of divine simplicity (DDS). While DDS was historically the predominant Christian view of God’s nature, it has in recent centuries become controversial among Protestant philosophers and theologians. The typical objections to DDS include things such as 1) the doctrine is unintelligible, 2) the doctrine removes…
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The Fruits of Sola Scriptura: A Rebuttal to a Common Protestant Response
Catholics often point to the wide variety of Protestant churches as evidence that the Reformation principle of sola scriptura, by scripture alone, is an unworkable standard that leads to infinite fragmentation and division within the church. Protestants of course have responses to this objection. One prominent response which I will rebut here is that while…