
What It Means to Be Protestant
The Case for an Always-Reforming Church
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Mike Lenz
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Gavin Ortlund
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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.
In his characteristically charitable and irenic style, Ortlund demonstrates that the 16th century Reformation represented a genuine renewal of the gospel. This does not entail that Protestantism is without faults. But because it is built upon the principle of semper reformanda (always reforming), Protestantism is capable of reforming itself according to Scripture as the ultimate authority. This scholarly and yet accessible book breaks new ground in ecumenical theology and will be a staple text in the field for many years to come.
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In 1952, C. S. Lewis's Mere Christianity eloquently defined the essential tenets of the Christian faith. With the rise of fractured individualism that continues to split the church, this approach is more important now than ever before for biblical hermeneutics. Influential theologian Kevin J. Vanhoozer puts forth a "mere" Christian hermeneutic—essential principles for reading the Bible as Scripture everywhere, at all times, and by all Christians.
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Transfiguring Bible interpretation
- By Gavin Koehnlein on 04-10-25
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The Question of Canon
- Challenging the Status Quo in the New Testament Debate
- By: Michael J. Kruger
- Narrated by: Brian P. Craig
- Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Did the New Testament canon arise naturally from within the early Christian faith? Were the books written as Scripture, or did they become Scripture? Why did early Christians have a canon at all? These are the types of questions that led Michael J. Kruger to pick apart modern scholarship's dominant view that the New Testament is a late creation of the church imposed on books originally written for another purpose.
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Effectively argues for the early establishment of the NT Canon
- By Nicodemas27 on 01-20-23
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Union with the Resurrected Christ
- Eschatological New Creation and New Testament Biblical Theology
- By: G. K. Beale
- Narrated by: William Sarris
- Length: 23 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Union with Christ is an important theological and practical concept that has received considerable attention in recent years. But not much consideration has been given to this union and its benefits in light of Jesus's resurrection and ascension. In this follow-up to his monumental A New Testament Biblical Theology, G. K. Beale summarizes and expands on that work with an eye to fleshing out the theological implications of the resurrection and ascension.
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King Jesus in His Glory
- By fagankela on 01-18-25
By: G. K. Beale
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On Death and Eternal Life
- Popular Patristics Series
- By: St Gregory of Nyssa, Brian Daley
- Narrated by: Jonah Martin
- Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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The seven works in this volume (some translated for the first time) explore the great human mystery of death and the promise of eternal life. They present—along with On the Soul and the Resurrection (PPS 12)—a vision that is consistent, philosophically profound, and characteristic of Gregory’s wider theology.
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Great theology from an early church father.
- By Russell D Swann Jr on 06-13-24
By: St Gregory of Nyssa, and others
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The Age of Enlightenment and Awakening
- 2,000 Years of Christ’s Power, Vol. 5
- By: Nick Needham
- Narrated by: Peter Matthess
- Length: 22 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Thoroughly researched with beautifully linked arguments, biographies, context and discussions, Needham provides a riveting text: balancing fact and understanding in the wisdom of experience. The book offers a wealth of knowledge for pastors, missionaries, students and professors as they pursue their own education into the response of Christians during the 18th century towards these shifts in the tides of the affairs of men.
By: Nick Needham
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Reading the Church Fathers
- A History of the Early Church and the Development of Doctrine
- By: James L. Papandrea
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
- Length: 18 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Dr. James Papandrea introduces you to all the major theologians, philosophers, and martyrs of the early Christian church and explains the theological principles that guided the Church from the New Testament era through the apologists, and, ultimately, to the development of the major doctrines. He uniquely situates the teachings of the early Church Fathers against the social and cultural context of the Roman Empire and its relationship to the Church.
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Never actually reads any of the church fathers
- By C. Mohrbacher on 07-21-23
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Renewing the Christian Mind
- Essays, Interviews, and Talks
- By: Dallas Willard, Gary Black Jr.
- Narrated by: Alan Winter
- Length: 19 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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From Dallas Willard, one of the most important Christian intellectuals of the 20th century, comes a collection of readings, interviews, talks, and articles - many previously unpublished. In his groundbreaking books, teacher, philosopher, and spiritual guide Dallas Willard forever changed the way many Christians experience their faith. Three years after his death, the influence of this provocative Christian thinker - "a man devoted to reestablishing the exalted place moral reasoning once held in the academy" ( Christianity Today) - remains strong.
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Read with a notebook ready
- By Steve S. Herron on 07-17-17
By: Dallas Willard, and others
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The Theology of the Book of Revelation
- By: Richard Bauckham
- Narrated by: Christopher Tester
- Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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The Book of Revelation is a work of profound theology. But its literary form makes it impenetrable to many modern listeners and open to all kinds of misinterpretations. Richard Bauckham explains how the book's imagery conveyed meaning in its original context and how the book's theology is inseparable from its literary structure and composition.
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Slightly over Lay level
- By Dawgpoundstl on 12-21-24
By: Richard Bauckham
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Typology: Understanding the Bible's Promise-Shaped Patterns
- How Old Testament Expectations Are Fulfilled in Christ
- By: James M. Hamilton Jr.
- Narrated by: James M. Hamilton Jr.
- Length: 16 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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In Typology—Understanding the Bible's Promise-Shaped Patterns, author James M. Hamilton Jr. shows that the similarities we find in the Bible are based on genuine historical correspondence and demonstrates how we recognize them in the repetition of words and phrases, the parallels between patterns of events, and key thematic equivalences. When understood in light of God's promises, these historical correspondences spotlight further repetitions that snowball on one another to build escalating significance.
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You really need the text to follow along
- By asiasoon on 03-25-22
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Concordia
- The Lutheran Confessions
- By: Concordia Publishing House
- Narrated by: Rev. Paul T. McCain, Dr. Ken Schurb
- Length: 33 hrs and 45 mins
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To Christians, nothing is more important than clearly confessing and bearing witness to the truths of God's word, which reveals the glorious Gospel of our Lord and savior Jesus Christ. That is what the Book of Concord is all about. This edition of the Lutheran Confessions instructs, inspires, and educates all who use it and help them learn what it means to be, and to remain, a genuinely confessing Lutheran Christian.
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Reformation Christianity Expertly Explained
- By Dennis E McFadden on 08-25-22
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On the Soul and the Resurrection
- By: St. Gregory of Nyssa
- Narrated by: James Fowler
- Length: 3 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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The resurrection from death is a strong component of the Christian faith, which the Nicene Creed, affirms stating: "We look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come." The early Christian writers Irenaeus and Justin Martyr, in the second century, wrote against the widespread idea of their time that only the soul survived. In like manner, we have this later writing of St. Gregory of Nyssa (335-395 AD) which clearly articulates the position that a person is both soul and body and that Christ has promised to raise them both.
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Beautiful discourse
- By stephen on 03-16-23
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Two Hundred Chapters on Theology
- St. Maximus the Confesor (Popular Patristics Series, Book 53)
- By: St. Maximus the Confessor
- Narrated by: Jonah Martin
- Length: 3 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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The Chapters on Theology is one of Maximus’ most eclectic writings. In this short piece, Maximus discusses many diverse themes, including God's relation to the cosmos, monastic discipline and life, scriptural difficulties, and his vision of the consummated universe in relation to the incarnate Word of God. The work is arranged into 200 “chapters,” which are often pithy pearls of wisdom that monks could learn from the respected figure of an elder or abbot. Chapters tend to address a range of issues monks would face in the course of their spiritual progress.
Excellent, challenging, eye opening
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The depth coupled with simplicity
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Gavin is making books great again.
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What it means to be Protestant
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Great book
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Outstanding Explanation of Protestant Beliefs
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Awesome book!!
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Much Needed Resource
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Very informative and enjoyable!
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A must read for all Protestants
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