The Crossway Podcast Is Evangelicalism out of Touch with Church History? (Gavin Ortlund)
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Nov 4, 2019 
Explore whether Evangelicals are disconnected from church history, the value of studying theologians like Anselm, balance between Reformation theology and historical perspectives, insights into God from historical writings, and the impact of reading old books like those in the Popular Patristics series.
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Pastoral Failures Reveal Theological Gaps
- Ortlund links some celebrity pastor failures to an underdeveloped pastoral theology shaped by pragmatic, secular leadership models.
- He says church history offers richer, theologically rooted shepherding models to restore pastoral depth.
Discovering Anselm Changed His Trajectory
- Ortlund describes his discovery of Anselm as a formative moment that opened his love for theology.
- Encountering Anselm made him appreciate the beauty of the idea of God and drew him deeper into historical theology.
Reformers Practiced Retrieval, Not Rejection
- Many evangelicals treat the medieval era as a 'dark age' and skip much of pre-Reformation history.
- Ortlund notes the Reformers themselves practiced retrieval, drawing from church fathers and medieval thinkers like Peter Lombard.