In this episode of The Cordial Catholic, I'm joined by Dr. Douglas Beaumont, a former Evangelical seminarian professor and a convert to the Catholic faith, to unpack how trying to decipher the "Evangelical essentials" led to his conversion.

Dr. Beaumont, a student of the late Evangelical theologian Dr. Norman Geisler, studied deeply into the history of the Church, the Bible, and tried to identify the "essentials" that all Evangelical Christians held in common. Using the Bible as the sole infallible rule for faith, could Protestants come to a conclusion on what were the most important parts of the Gospel? Could Protestants agree on how we're saved? What baptism was for? When to baptize? What happened at the Lord's supper? And many more theological points.

It was on this journey, studying under one of the greatest minds in Evangelical Christianity, that Dr. Beaumont came to realize that finding the "Protestant Essentials," what united all Protestants together, was an impossible task.

To find more from Dr. Beaumount visit his website and check out his fantastic YouTube channel as well.

Dr. Beaumont also has a great video on the Evangelical Essentials as well as two articles:

• Can the Grammatical-Historical Method of Interpretation Determine Christian Orthodoxy?
• Is Christian Orthodoxy a Logical Deduction? Norman Geisler's Failed Attempts at Preserving Orthodoxy 

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