Sometimes a book’s title is clever, or poetic, or deliberately opaque. Sometimes, though, the title just lays it right out in the open. This is the case with Gavin Ortlund’s Finding the Right Hills to Die On. The subtitle clarifies even further: “The Case for Theological Triage.” This is a book, then, about assessing different doctrines to determine which are essential to the Christian faith and which are not. It is a book about determining which theological battles are worth fighting.
Of course it’s not quite so simple, is it? Theology can’t be neatly categorized into “essential” and “non-essential” or into “major” and “minor.” After all, different points of theology overlap one another; there is no doctrine that stands alone, aloof from all others. And if every word of God is true, how could we dare say that any one of his words is unimportant? Yet it really is the case that some doctrines divide Christian from non-Christian and thriving Christian from wandering Christian. For this reason we need a way to prioritize some over others, a way to distinguish the ones that are most essential from the ones that are less so. Several years ago, Albert Mohler
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