#026 - Carl Trueman - These Ideas Have Been Terrible For Our Humanity And Our Culture

Dr Carl Trueman is a Christian theologian and ecclesiastical historian. Carl is Professor of Biblical and Religious Studies at Grove City College in Grove City, Pennsylvania. He has written many books including, 'The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution.' He contributes to First Things), blogs regularly at Reformation21 and co-hosts the Mortification of Spin podcast.

In this episode, Carl and I talk about the importance of our cultural elite in shaping how we see the world, what the four ages of man are and why we're now living in the age of psychological man, why modernity and the ideas of today make us less human, the impact of the God-shaped hole the Western world in modernity on us all, how behaviour in the public square has become increasingly coarse even among our leaders, the surprising return of Christianity to the public sphere, why Richard Dawkins is in the horns of a dilemma now that he is part of 'Team Christianity', and the ideological and religious choices in front of us.

This was a deeply engaging and heartfelt conversation. Carl is a wonderful soul. I admire his ability to present such a clear-eyed analysis of the ideas that have shaped us for good and ill in such an everyday human way. Whatever your beliefs - from all faiths or none - I think you'll resonate with what's being said here.

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Show notes
- https://www.amazon.co.uk/Rise-Triumph-Modern-Self-Individualism/dp/1433556332/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&dib_tag=se&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.Zhe0jozC4dOISFQbImVqoDfab1IMd5dIYABdOcUdgB0mu8-Q11e8zTvmkajuduUWQhbOJh9CcLoem4mO6AYfMw.dG_u9asc19H0FVXCx4Ve7ZgaMu3S1V_By_Hn_C-WBDw&qid=1715319879&sr=8-1
- https://amazon.co.uk/Crisis-Confidence-Reclaiming-Historic-Individualism/dp/1433590018/ref=sr_1_2?crid=7YJ5LF5COQGW&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.zCpJnm_BzpAFYaEHBqybEedfDynaHjE94YOVq3qiuq1A9ZQ5yN9SG_F9Y17k0l27yWHe4Y-V6dB9GLmPMZNNWHw5jcVqK1p-yNoU20-jfVxjP0r1PhgNitvFBq6a9dbVN8QZ5niGiQC_1KRV5EcW_a-SK2ircImI3IevwGEo_ia6cjjHF1bkM_zFRWFV7ZvZFQcsV3xzaXa2Gm8e2ov6FW4pMukigXoR3b8nMfaVesI.O9ZiJQfmyKW0qUUXtdwCl0zxcNoPQ4O_qtfnWnLTv0Y&dib_tag=se&keywords=carl+trueman+books&qid=1715319925&sprefix=carl+tru%2Caps%2C122&sr=8-2