WhatGodDoeth Study Series
Gentle and Lowly
- CoversAll 7 Parts
- Study units11
- Review questions72
- Print edition103 pages
Every question in the guide with lines to write on, without the study guide. Part of the online edition. Compare editions
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Series introduction
Follow the author’s argument
The WhatGodDoeth Study Series is built for readers who want the architecture of an important Christian book without losing the author’s actual argument.
Each guide compresses the source into a shorter path through its main claims, distinctions, examples, and turning points. The goal is clarity, not replacement. The original book remains the authority for what the author said.
That matters especially in Gentle and Lowly. Ortlund returns to one claim from many angles, drawing on the Puritans as he goes, and the weight comes from the repetition. This guide follows that movement rather than flattening it into a summary.
Use the guide to see how the pieces connect, then return to Ortlund whenever a text, term, or conclusion needs the full context of the source.
Four-section roadmap
Gentle and Lowly in one movement
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Guide Part One
Christ Tells Us His Heart
Open Guide Part One -
Guide Part Two
Christ Moves Toward the Weak
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Guide Part Three
His Heart Remains Active Now
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Guide Part Four
Father, Son, and Spirit Are Not Divided
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Guide Part Five
The Old Testament Reveals the Same God
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Guide Part Six
Believers Learn to Live From This Heart
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Guide Part Seven
Christ Loves His Own to the End
Open Guide Part Seven
Ortlund’s twenty-three chapters do not form printed Parts, but they do move through recognizable theological territory. This guide uses those seven movements as editorial Part divisions so readers can see the progression as they study. The Part labels belong to the study guide, not to Ortlund’s original table of contents.
How to read this guide
Four marks, four kinds of help
A small marker at the start of a paragraph tells you what kind of work that paragraph is doing.
How the chapter or unit is built: the sequence, distinction, or theological move that holds the material together.
The central idea to retain from the unit. Each study unit uses one Key.
Plain meaning for difficult biblical, theological, historical, or archaic language.
A meaningful connection to another text, chapter, doctrine, or lived implication. Guide-added biblical parallels, if used, are labeled Study Connection; otherwise the connection belongs to Ortlund’s own argument.
Read the argument in layers
- Follow the biblical text. Notice which passage Ortlund places at the center of each chapter and what he believes it reveals.
- Keep the voices distinct. Scripture, Ortlund, and the older writers he quotes are related but not interchangeable.
- Work the theology back out. Review & Work It Out and Can You Say It? ask you to reconstruct the distinctions rather than collect devotional slogans.
Full study guide
Everything in the full guide
16 study units
Every chapter of all four Books, followed as one continuous argument, with Study Connections to Scripture.
Open Guide Part OneReview & Work It Out
136 questions and “Can You Say It?” prompts, with space to write your answers right on the page.
Open the final reviewKey-term glossary
Ortlund’s key terms and distinctions, defined the way he uses them, in one place for quick reference.
Open the glossaryJust this book
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