What It Means to Be Protestant Quotes

“Is to be deep in history to cease to be Protestant? When it comes to the venerating of icons, to be deep in history is, emphatically to the contrary, to cease to be Roman Catholic or Eastern Orthodox.”
― Gavin Ortlund, What It Means to Be Protestant: The Case for an Always-Reforming Church

“No contemporary church looks just like the early church. Only the most superficial acquaintance with church history can deny this. Speaking of Roman Catholicism, for example, C. S. Lewis put it like this: “The Roman Church where it differs from this universal tradition and specifically from apostolic Christianity I reject. . . . The whole set-up of modern Romanism seems to me to be as much a provincial or local variation from the ancient tradition as any particular Protestant sect is.”
― Gavin Ortlund, What It Means to Be Protestant: The Case for an Always-Reforming Church

“For example, we are often told we need an infallible magisterium to interpret the Bible, but much less appreciated are the intractable problems of interpreting the magisterium itself.”
― Gavin Ortlund, What It Means to Be Protestant: The Case for an Always-Reforming Church

“The way I like to put it is that sola fide is the “what” of the Reformation; sola Scriptura, the “how.” The first is an object, the second a method. The first is a precious jewel; the second, the safe that protects it.”
― Gavin Ortlund, What It Means to Be Protestant: The Case for an Always-Reforming Church