Books
The Art of Disagreeing: How to Keep Calm and Stay Friends in Hard Conversations
The Good Book Company
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2025
Articles and Essays:
The Approach: Exposing Unbelief as Unlivable
in The Gospel After Christendom: An Introduction to Cultural Apologetics
Zondervan
(2025)
: 101-114
Angelic Fall Theodicy in Dialogue with Tolkien, Augustine, and Aquinas
Themelios
Vol. 50
, No. 2
(2025)
: 329-337
How Church History Can Help Us Reconstruct Evangelicalism
in Reconstructing Evangelicalism: Challenges and Opportunities (The Center for Pastor Theologians Series)
Cascade
(2024)
Trinity and Aseity
in The Doctrine of the Trinity, On Classical Trinitarianism: Retrieving the Nicene Doctrine of the Triune God
IVP Academic
(2024)
Will We See God’s Essence? A Defense of a Thomistic Account of the Beatific Vision
Scottish Journal of Theology
Vol. 74
, No. 4
(2022)
: 323-332
The Harmony of Faith and Reason in Anselm’s Theological Epistemology
in New Readings of Anselm of Canterbury’s Intellectual Methods
Brill
Vol. 6
(2022)
Augustine on Animal Death
in Evil and Creation: Historical and Constructive Essays in Christian Dogmatics
Lexham
(2020)
Why Not Grandchildren? An Argument Against Reformed Paedobaptism
Themelios
Vol. 45
, No. 2
(2020)
: 333–346
‘A Losing Battle Against Reality:’ C.S. Lewis on the Nature and Necessity of Hell
Bibliotheca Sacra
Vol. 176
(2019)
: 327-342
Why Should Protestants Retrieve Patristic and Medieval Theology?
in The Task of Dogmatics: Explorations in Theological (Los Angeles Theology Conference Series)
Zondervan
(2017)
Explorations in a Theological Metaphor: Boethius, Calvin, and Torrance on the Creator/creation Distinction
Modern Theology
Vol. 33
, No. 2
(2016)
: 167-186
On the Fall of Angels and the Fallenness of Nature: An Evangelical Hypothesis Regarding Natural Evil
Evangelical Quarterly
Vol. 87
, No. 2
(2015)
: 114-136
Image of Adam, Son of God: Genesis 5:3 and Luke 3:38 in Inter-canonical Dialogue
Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society (JETS)
Vol. 57
, No. 4
(2014)
: 673-88
Divine Simplicity in Historical Perspective: Resourcing A Contemporary Discussion
International Journal of Systematic Theology
Vol. 16
, No. 4
(2014)
: 436–453
“The Voice of His Blood”: Christ’s Intercession in the Thought of Stephen Charnock
Themelios
Vol. 38
, No. 3
(2013)
: 375-389
On the Throwing of Rocks: An Objection to Hasty and Un-careful Criticisms of Anselm’s Doctrine of the Atonement
The Saint Anselm Journal
Vol. 8
, No. 2
(2013)
: 1-17
Resurrected as Messiah: The Risen Christ as Prophet, Priest, and King
Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society (JETS)
Vol. 54
, No. 4
(2011)
: 749-766
Wholly Other or Wholly Given Over? What Van Til Missed in his Criticism of Barth
Presbyterion
Vol. 35
, No. 1
(2008)
: 35-52
Forthcoming Articles and Essays
Online Writing
Book Reviews
The Doctrine of Creation: A Constructive Kuperian Approach
By Bruce Riley Ashford & Craig G. Bartholomew
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Review by Gavin Ortlund
International Journal of Systematic Theology
May 2021
Bavinck: A Critical Biography
By James Eglinton
__________
Review by Gavin Ortlund
Christianity Today
Jan 2021
Engaging the Doctrine of Creation: Cosmos, Creatures, and the Wise and Good Creator
By Matthew Levering
__________
Review by Gavin Ortlund
Catholic University of America Press
Apr 2019
Early Christian Readings of Genesis One: Patristic Exegesis and Literal Interpretation
By Craig Allert
__________
Review by Gavin Ortlund
Themelios
Apr 2019
In Search of Ancient Roots: The Christian Past and the Evangelical Identity Crisis
By Kenneth Stewart
__________
Review by Gavin Ortlund
The Gospel Coalition
Nov 2017
Lies We Believe About God
By William Paul Young
__________
Review by Gavin Ortlund
The Gospel Coalition
Apr 2017
Medieval Wisdom for Modern Christians: Finding Authentic Faith in a Forgotten Age with C. S. Lewis
By Chris R. Armstrong
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Review by Gavin Ortlund
The Gospel Coalition
Jul 2016
Theology as Retrieval: Receiving the Past, Renewing the Church
By David Buschart & Kent Eilers
__________
Review by Gavin Ortlund
The Gospel Coalition
Jul 2015
Reformed Catholicity: The Promise of Retrieval for Theology and Biblical Interpretation
By Scott R. Swain & Michael Allen
__________
Review by Gavin Ortlund
The Gospel Coalition
Feb 2015
How to be a Christian Without Going to Church
By Kelly Bean
__________
Review by Gavin Ortlund
The Gospel Coalition
Jul 2014
Engaging with Keller: Thinking Through the Theology of an Influential Evangelical
By Iain D. Campbell & William M. Schweitzer, ed.
__________
Review by Gavin Ortlund
Themelios
Apr 2014
Delighting in the Law of the Lord: God’s Alternative to Legalism and Moralism
By Jerram Barrs
__________
Review by Gavin Ortlund
The Gospel Coalition
Dec 2013
The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God
By Tim and Kathy Keller
__________
Review by Gavin Ortlund
Themelios
Nov 2013
All In: You Are One Decision Away From a Totally Different Life
By Mark Batterson
__________
Review by Gavin Ortlund
The Gospel Coalition
Oct 2013
Limitless Life: You Are More Than Your Past When God Holds Your Future
By Derwin Gray
__________
Review by Gavin Ortlund
The Gospel Coalition
Sep 2013
If God, Then What? Wondering Aloud about Truth, Origins, and Redemption
By Andrew Wilson
__________
Review by Gavin Ortlund
The Gospel Coalition
Aug 2013
Jesus Is: Find a New Way to be Human
By Judah Smith
__________
Review by Gavin Ortlund
The Gospel Coalition
Jun 2013
The Heroic Boldness of Martin Luther
By Stephen J. Lawson
__________
Review by Gavin Ortlund
The Gospel Coalition
Apr 2013
The Gospel as Center: Renewing our Faith and Reforming our Ministry Practices
By D.A. Carson and Tim Keller, eds.
__________
Review by Gavin Ortlund
Themelios
Nov 2012
The Hole in our Holiness
By Kevin DeYoung
__________
Review by Gavin Ortlund
The Gospel Coalition
Aug 2012

Responses
Love the new blog, Gav! Way to go.
You look like your grandfather! Appreciated his ministry when I attended Fuller in the early 70’s @tejaspastor
I’m writing to invite you to join the new Bible Gateway Blogger Grid (BG²). If you’d like details, email me. Thanks.
I just read a couple of your blogs and found them to be clear, compelling and helpful. Thank you. My prayer in preaching is always for Spirit guided unction and clarity. After 35 years of pastoral ministry and twenty of those preaching weekly, I still must admit to being a babe in the woods when it comes to preaching. What a great God we have to speak through such roughly hewn tools. Blessings to you as you continue to encourage Christ’s church through your pastoral ministry and writing.
Hey Gavin,
What a blessing your blog is! I read 3 posts and watched some videos in YouTube, I really enjoyed it, clear and articulate. I’m interested in studying church fathers and their doctrinal beliefs, what books would you recommend me to read. And can you put links for books to read, if possible, related with the videos you discuss. Thanks!
God bless!
Glad to be connected, thanks for the comment! In terms of book suggestions, this might be useful: https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/books-read-church-fathers/
Hi Gavin,
My name is Blake Long. I published a book about a year ago entitled Gospel Smugness: Displaying Christlike Character in Evangelism. I was curious if I could come on Truth Unites sometime to talk about it! Would be more than happy to send you a copy.
Thanks,
Blake Long