Carl R. Trueman
Carl R. Trueman is a professor at the Alva J. Calderwood School of Arts and Letters, Grove City College.
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Why the Modern World Is at War with Human Nature
In this discussion, they trace the long arc from the Renaissance to today: how the rejection of God didn’t just change our theology but degraded our very sense of what a person is, and how “spiritual but not religious” isn’t a recent invention but the inevitable endpoint of centuries of ideas.
Faithful Preaching In A Fashionable World
When I was preaching week by week to the same congregation, one of my fundamental convictions was that I needed to keep politics out of the pulpit. Perhaps I should express that more precisely: I needed to keep party politics out of the pulpit. I was—and still am—convinced that how an individual votes at the […]
Whatever I Think, Therefore I Am: An Interview with Carl Trueman
Timon Cline interviewed Professor Carl Trueman on his latest book, The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution (Crossway, 2020), which includes a foreword by Rod Dreher. TC: Although there’s a lot packed into The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self—and it’s not short—could […]
The Rise & Triumph of the Modern Self
How did so many people in our day come to believe that sexuality is at the core of a person’s individual identity? And how is it that inner psychology and subjective feelings came to have more cultural authority than a person’s actual biology? Shane Rosenthal discusses these questions and more with Carl Trueman, author of […]
“The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self” by Carl R. Trueman
The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to the Sexual Revolutionby Carl R. TruemanCrossway, 2020432 pages (hardcover), $34.99 “For all intents and purposes, I am a woman.” That was Bruce (now Caitlyn) Jenner, the 1976 men’s decathlon Olympic gold medalist, announcing in a 2015 interview with Diane […]
