Beggars to Bread: Why Protestant Is More Catholic

Tuesday, December 2, 2025

Why Protestant Is More Catholic

Gavin Ortlund examines recent ecumenical developments and argues for a broader, more biblically grounded understanding of catholicity.

Videos Mentioned:

A MAJOR Problem With "Doctrinal Development":

• A MAJOR Problem With "Doctrinal Development"

Why Reformation Was Needed:

• Why Reformation Was Needed

Protestant vs. Oriental Orthodox: The FIRST Dialogue:

• Protestant vs. Oriental Orthodox: The FIRS...

Citations:

Richard Price, The Acts of the Second Council of Nicaea (787) (Translated Texts for Historians, vol. 68; Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2020), 89.

Tarasios of Constantinople, as cited in Price, The Acts of the Second Council of Nicaea (787), 90.

Tarasios of Constantinople, as cited in Price, The Acts of the Second Council of Nicaea (787), 585.

Pope Boniface VIII, Unam Sanctam

The Patriarchal Encyclical of 1895, XXIV, http://orthodoxinfo.com/ecumenism/enc..., accessed May 30, 2023.

The Confession of Dositheus, in The Holy Standards: The Creeds, Confessions of Faith, and Catechisms of the Eastern Orthodox Church, ed. Joshua Schooping (Olyphany, PA: St. Theophan the Recluse, 2020), 42, 45.

Luther’s Works, vol. 40, 232.

John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion 4.2.12, vol. 2, ed. John T. McNeill; trans. Ford Lewis Battles (2 vols; Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2006) 1052, italics his.

Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion 4.2.2, vol., 2 1043.

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Gavin Ortlund (PhD, Fuller Theological Seminary) is President of Truth Unites, Visiting Professor of Historical Theology at Phoenix Seminary, and Theologian-in-Residence at Immanuel Nashville.

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