Trueman , Carl R.
3 Articles at Lifeissues.net

Carl R. Trueman is Professor of Biblical and Religious Studies at Grove City College, Pa, and a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Faith and Freedom. He writes regularly at First Things and is the author of numerous books, most recently The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution.

Articles

Apocalyptic Politics: Christianity and the New World Order

As our dependence on technology reshapes the moral imagination of our culture to see human beings as psychological wills that need not respect material limitations, so the old order that was built upon the vision of human beings as both body and soul will become increasingly implausible. The things that make Christianity stand out from the wider culture - belief in the incarnation, the resurrection, and embodied human nature as a real, universal thing with moral consequences - are antithetical to the terms of membership in the emerging world order.

Date posted: 2023-02-27

Our Plastic World - And Plastic Selves

The collapse of traditional, external anchors of identity - perhaps most obviously those of religion, nation, and family - explains the attraction of the turn inward. The rise of technology feeds the notion that we can bend nature to our will, that the world is just so much raw, plastic material from which we can make whatever meaning or reality we choose. We no longer think of ourselves as subject to the world's fixed nature, or of it as having an objective authority or meaning. We are the ones with power, and we are the ones who give the world significance.

Date posted: 2022-03-25

Are Women Still Human?

"The issue of abortion cannot be reduced to the narrow question of the status of the child in the womb. The answers rest upon broader assumptions about what it means to be human. If we are to believe those who defend a right to abortion, it is nothing less than the power to end the life of her unborn child that guarantees a woman her humanity - that is, the autonomy befitting her status as man's equal. That is a denial of what really makes us human: our natural dependence upon, and obligations towards, one another.

Date posted: 2021-10-03