Why Are Evangelicals Becoming Eastern Orthodox?

About this episode

The episode explores the appeal of Eastern Orthodoxy among evangelicals through the insights of Fr. Peter Gillquist.

While Orthodox apologists are gaining traction online today, a similar wave of disillusionment with evangelicalism was already unfolding in American culture back in 1996. In this classic episode of White Horse Inn, Fr. Peter Gillquist, an evangelical convert to Eastern Orthodoxy, joins Michael Horton to explore the appeal of Orthodoxy among evangelicals. GET YOUR FREE SOLA NEWSPAPER A quarterly print publication featuring articles on theology, the historic creeds and confessions, and reflections for the Christian life, delivered straight to your mailbox. For free. FOLLOW US YouTube | Instagram | X/Twitter | Facebook | Newsletter WHO WE ARE Sola Media serves today's global church by producing resources for reformation grounded in the historic Christian faith. For over thirty-five years, Sola has walked alongside Christians in their faith, pointing away from novelty and ourselves, and toward Christ and his gospel as proclaimed in the Scriptures, articulated in the ancient Christian Creeds, and summarized in the confessions of the Protestant Reformation. Learn more: https://solamedia.org/

People in this episode

Host: Michael Horton

Guest: Fr. Peter Gillquist

Topics covered

• Eastern Orthodoxy
• evangelicalism
• religious conversion
• Christian faith
• disillusionment

Keywords

• Eastern Orthodoxy
• evangelicals
• religious conversion
• Christianity
• disillusionment

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Sola Media

Books & works: White Horse Inn

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