Show Notes
How did we get here? And more importantly, where do we, as Christians, go from here? These are the questions of our day and their answers have significant implications for life and ministry in the 21st century. In this episode, Carl R. Trueman joins Matthew Barrett to talk about these questions and their implications. The pair discuss Freud, Marx, Nietzsche, theology, psychology, and the notion of the sexualized self. In doing so, they show the importance of theology and metaphysics for Christians who are swimming in a culture of expressive individualism.
Carl R. Trueman (Ph.D., University of Aberdeen) is the author of The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution (Crossway, 2020). He is Professor of Biblical and Religious Studies at Grove City College in Grove City, Pennsylvania. He is an esteemed church historian and previously served as the William E. Simon Fellow in Religion and Public Life at Princeton University. His current research interests include the rise and impact of modern notions of selfhood on contemporary culture and the nature of doctrinal development within the Christian church. He blogs regularly at First Things, where he is a featured author.
Matthew Barrett is the author of Simply Trinity: The Unmanipulated Father, Son, and Holy Spirit (Baker). He is the founder and executive editor of Credo Magazine and host of the Credo podcast. He is associate professor of Christian theology at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.