Carl Trueman

Letting CRT break the Church is foolish and misguided

By SI Filings

Dec 13 2021

"Opinions on critical race theory are rarely what truly divide Christians. It’s our fear that those with differing opinions on this issue are not merely mistaken, but violating scriptural essentials. This sense is dangerous, says Dr. Carl Trueman" - CPost

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Critical Race Theory

Church Conflict

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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 impassibility.

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834 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

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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.

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26639 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.

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Nashville Statement

Human Sexuality

4619 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.

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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."

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American Culture

921 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.

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