The Resurgence of Fundamentalism, the Normalization of Slander, and What it Means to Be Protestant: Dr. Gavin Ortlund

Theology in the Raw

Preston Sprinkle

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 3 October 2024

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Gavin Ortlund is a writer, theologian, and Christian apologist. Gavin serves as President of Truth Unites, a ministry which seeks to promote gospel assurance through theological depth, and serves as a Theologian-in-Residence at Immanuel Nashville. Gavin holds a PhD from Fuller Theological Seminary and an MDiv from Covenant Theological Seminary. He’s written several books including his latest: What it Means to be Protestant: A Case for an Always-Reforming Church, which forms the basis of our conversation. But first, we talk extensively about his latest controversy over some false accusations that we made about his beliefs, how he responded, and the recent resurgence of fundamentalism in Christianity. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey friends welcome back to another episode of theology around my guest today is Dr.
0:03.4	Gavin Orlan who serves as president of Truth Unites a ministry which seeks to promote
0:08.4	gospel assurance through theological depth.
0:11.1	Gavin holds a PhD from Fuller Theological Seminary and an MDA. Dea
0:15.0	Gavin holds a PhD from Fuller Theological Seminary and an MDV from Covenant Theological Seminary. He's also a theologian in residence at
0:20.0	Emanuel Church in Nashville. I need to get one of those jobs a theologian in residence. That's pretty awesome. He's written several books including his latest book
0:29.2	What it means to be Protestant a case for an always reforming church. We do get to that book later on on the episode. That was the main reason why I wanted to have Gavin on the podcast. But Gavin was kind of wrapped up in some recent controversy which we talk
0:45.8	extensively about in this podcast so I don't need to explain any of it to you he'll
0:51.1	get it in due time but we we lingered on that for a while and then also ended up talking about other things related to kind of the the apparent resurgence of fundamentalism in the American Christian church.
1:04.9	So that's where we spend most of her time, but I do want to highlight his book, what it means to
1:08.8	be Protestant, and we do talk about a few things like solo scripture towards the end of this
1:14.0	podcast so please welcome to the show for the first time the wonderly Dr.
1:18.0	Gavin Orlin. All right.
1:27.0	Gavin' Ortland.
1:32.8	Gavin Orrah, been looking forward to this conversation for a while. Me too.
1:33.8	Thanks for having me.
1:34.7	Is this your first?
1:35.7	I know I've been on your show.
1:36.7	Have you been on The O' My show?
1:37.7	I don't even have.
1:38.7	You know, this is a testimony to how crazy my life is right now that I can't remember that right
1:42.4	off the spot.
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