[13] Including: A prolific writer, Cottrell wrote articles in a variety of Christian publications.
In December 1961, he submitted an opinion piece for The Restoration Herald and then in June of the following year his article "The Use of Scriptural Terminology by Disciples of Christ Leaders" was published in a four-part series.
[15] Cottrell supported conservative beliefs of inerrancy and infallibility of the Bible[5] and that baptism by immersion is the Biblical method.
[16][17][18] Cottrell was critical of Calvinism and mostly supported Arminianism,[19][20][21] despite attending theological institutions associated with the Reformed tradition.
Cottrell believed that the "Father, Son and Spirit are distinct persons who exist simultaneously and interact with one another.
Cottrell defined partial depravity as, "no matter how evil sinners may be, they all have the ability to make a free-will choice to accept the gospel.
The mission of CBMW stats that it is "primarily to help the church defend against the accommodation of secular feminism."
(Danvers Statement) Cottrell published two more books, Gender Roles and the Bible: Creation, the Fall, and Redemption: A Critique of Feminist Biblical Interpretation (1995), and Headship, Submission, and the Bible: Gender Roles in the Home (2008).