Indulgences: Patristic to Medieval Changes
Gavin Ortlund
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12 July 2022
25 November 2025
Indulgences represent an example of the Protestant concern about accretions in church history. In this video I highlight three ways indulgences change from the patristic to the medieval era.
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Gavin Ortlund (PhD, Fuller Theological Seminary) serves as senior pastor of First Baptist Church of Ojai.
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00:00 - Introduction
0:58 - Indulgences as Representative of Accretions
3:13 - What is an Indulgence?
5:29 - The Anathema of Trent
7:32 - The Basic Protestant Position
8:47 - 1) Indulgences Get More Common
11:57 - 2) Indulgences Get More Transactional
15:11 - 3) Indulgences Get More Powerful
22:30 - The Underlying Pastoral Concern