The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self
by Carl R. Trueman | Book Summary
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Author: Carl R. Trueman
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Whatever one thinks about the validity of such a statement, it is worth noting that the vast majority of people who have ever lived on planet Earth never heard such an idea expressed and would not know how to process such a statement. However, two decades into the 21st century, this statement is entirely coherent and meaningful to many people. Furthermore, those who deny the validity of such a claim are immediately labeled "stupid" or "immoral" (p. 19). The claim of this book is simple: one cannot possibly understand the sexual revolution, homosexual marriage, and transgenderism without first understanding "how society undertands the nature of human selfhood" (p. 20). In other words, the sexual revolution is merely a sub-revolution of a broader revolution in the way people think about our identity as humans. If one can make sense of how people define themselves as human beings in the 21st century, one can begin to make sense of how the sexual revolution has changed our thoughts about gender and sexuality. |
Carl R. Trueman is a professor of biblical and religious studies at Grove City College in Grove CIty, Pennsylvania. Previously, he taught historical theology at Westminster Theological Seminary and Princeton University. He received his MA from the University of Cambridge and his PhD from the University of Aberdeen. Trueman is esteemed as a church historian, and he is the author of over a dozen books, including Histories and Fallacies, Luther on the Christian Life, and The Creedal Imperative. Trueman formerly was the editor for the theological journal Themelios. Trueman is an ordained minister in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church and is a member of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals.
The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self
by Carl R. Trueman
[ Book Summary ]
| Author | Carl R. Trueman |
| Publisher | Crossway |
| Date | 2020 |
| Pages | 425 |
Overview:
"The origins of this book lie in my curiosity about how and why a particular statement has come to be regarded as coherent and meaningful: 'I am a woman trapped in a man's body.'" (p. 19)
Whatever one thinks about the validity of such a statement, it is worth noting that the vast majority of people who have ever lived on planet Earth never heard such an idea expressed and would not know how to process such a statement. However, two decades into the 21st century, this statement is entirely coherent and meaningful to many people. Furthermore, those who deny the validity of such a claim are immediately labeled "stupid" or "immoral" (p. 19).
The claim of this book is simple: one cannot possibly understand the sexual revolution, homosexual marriage, and transgenderism without first understanding "how society undertands the nature of human selfhood" (p. 20).
In other words, the sexual revolution is merely a sub-revolution of a broader revolution in the way people think about our identity as humans. If one can make sense of how people define themselves as human beings in the 21st century, one can begin to make sense of how the sexual revolution has changed our thoughts about gender and sexuality.
Carl R. Trueman is a professor of biblical and religious studies at Grove City College in Grove CIty, Pennsylvania. Previously, he taught historical theology at Westminster Theological Seminary and Princeton University. He received his MA from the University of Cambridge and his PhD from the University of Aberdeen. Trueman is esteemed as a church historian, and he is the author of over a dozen books, including Histories and Fallacies, Luther on the Christian Life, and The Creedal Imperative. Trueman formerly was the editor for the theological journal Themelios. Trueman is an ordained minister in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church and is a member of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals.