The Kerygmatic Fallacy By TylerR Aug 14 2018 Carl Trueman: In my experience, the ‘But is it preachable?’ question/objection has come most recently to be lodged against those centre-pieces of classical Christian Trinitarian theism, divine simplicity and divine immutability and Tags: Carl TruemanTrinityPreaching 651 reads
If Only ... They Would Read the Poem By TylerR Jul 25 2018 Carl Trueman: Postcolonial theory offers a vision of the world that has no more moral sophistication than the typical B-movie Western from the 1950s, where the goodies and baddies were identifiable by the color of their hats Tags: Carl Trueman 536 reads
Carl Trueman Leaves Westminster for Grove City College By TylerR Apr 24 2018 Grove City College announced today that Carl R. Trueman, one of America’s foremost Christian voices and an accomplished church historian, will join the faculty in the fall. Tags: Carl Trueman 15971 reads
From Hippo to Nashville By TylerR Sep 11 2017 Carl Trueman: The [Nashville] statement operates within the accepted modern categories of identity, never addressing the root of the problem. It deals with symptoms, not causes, and only with the symptoms that play best within the increasingly fragile coalition of conservative evangelical Christianity. Tags: Nashville StatementHuman SexualitySexual EthicsCarl Trueman 3032 reads
A Merry Pascalian Christmas! By TylerR Dec 19 2016 Carl Trueman: Perhaps the irony of Christmas is that, in its current form, it has become one of the focal points of the culture of distraction, which Pascal so ably critiqued. It is all about consumption, which is just another form of distraction and diversion. Tags: Carl TruemanPascalcommercialism 1256 reads
Lost in Xanadu By TylerR Aug 04 2016 Carl Trueman: "[I]f entertainment is the very essence of our social existence today, then we are in a sense not faced with addressing meaninglessness . . . The church is not combating meaninglessness so much as offering an alternative meaning in a competitive marketplace. And the idioms of plausibility in that marketplace are themselves part of the problem." Tags: Carl TruemanAmerican Culture 729 reads
Trouble in Bakersfield By TylerR Jul 08 2016 Carl Trueman: A popular, longstanding, and effective member of a schoolboard has had to stand down—not because he does not enjoy the confidence of the community, but simply because he does not accept the latest demands that every knee must bow to whatever the political taste of the moment has decided is non-negotiable. Tags: Carl TruemanTransgenderism 1433 reads
The Rise of the Anti-Culture By TylerR May 11 2016 Carl Trueman: Is the culture war over? Or, to use less martial language, is Christian cultural engagement at an end? At the risk of depriving a rapidly shrinking handful of old-school Republicans and countless trendy Christian blog pundits of their reason to exist, I believe the answer is yes. Tags: Carl Trueman 2111 reads
