The Reformation was not just a doctrinal corrective, but a spiritual corrective as well. This video shows two areas reformation was needed in the late medieval Western church: (1) indulgences, and (2) persecution.
 
See my previous videon on the historical development of indulgences here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQUKYM6rIn8
Read Ad Extirpanda here: http://www.documentacatholicaomnia.eu/01p/1252-05-15,_SS_Innocentius_IV,_Bulla_%27Ad_Extirpanda%27,_EN.pdf



Why Reformation Was Needed

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Gavin Ortlund responds to Michael Garten and Seraphim Hamilton on icon veneration as defined at Nicaea 2.

See their video: https://youtu.be/xo6-UDl7zq8?si=S5Lgm4COZhXUX_69
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Icon Veneration is STILL an Accretion (Response to Hamilton/Garten)

Gavin Ortlund shares three lessons we can learn about persecution from church history.
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Persecution in Church History: Stories We MUST Know

Gavin Ortlund and Michael Horton explore the origins of "spiritual but not religious" as an ideology.

See Dr. Horton's Book: https://www.amazon.com/Shaman-Sage-Spiritual-Religious-Antiquity/dp/0802877117
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Is Spirituality A Greater Threat Than Atheism? With Michael Horton

In this video Gavin Ortlund addresses whether Deuteronomy 21 condones war rape among the ancient Israelites.
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War R*pe in Deuteronomy 21?

Gavin Ortlund addresses the conquest of Canaan in the book of Joshua. Was it a just punishment of evil or itself an evil act of genocide?
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Why Reformation Was Needed

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