How the Rejection of God Degrades Our Humanity

As church attendance falls, suicide rates climb, and birth rates plummet, Christian pundits have suggested disenchantment and the loss of tradition are to blame for our spiritual malaise. But what if the problem is both much simpler and much more serious? Carl Trueman argues that modern man’s crisis of meaning stems from a rejection of a simple fact—that he was made in the image of God. He joins us.

Further Reading

Book: The Desecration of Man: How the Rejection of God Degrades Our Humanity (https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/729796/the-desecration-of-man-by-carl-r-trueman/)

Book: The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self (https://www.crossway.org/books/the-rise-and-triumph-of-the-modern-self-hcj/)

The Desecration of Man (https://firstthings.com/the-desecration-of-man/)

Erasing birth mothers (https://eppc.org/publication/erasing-birth-mothers/)

When No-Fault Divorce Turns Children into Commodities (https://firstthings.com/when-no-fault-divorce-turns-children-into-commodities/)

Playing God, Becoming Nothing (https://firstthings.com/playing-god-becoming-nothing/)

Guest Info

Carl Trueman is the author most recently of The Desecration of Man: How the Rejection of God Degrades Our Humanity. He’s a professor of biblical and theological studies at Grove City College, a visiting fellow at the Center for Citizenship and Constitutional Government at the University of Notre Dame, and a fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. An esteemed church historian, he is the author of more than a dozen other books, including The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self and Strange New World.

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