This is Thinking in Public, a program dedicated to intelligent conversation about

front-line theological and cultural issues with the people who are shaping them.

I'm Albert Mowel, your host and president to the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky.

Carl Truman is professor of biblical and religious studies at Grove City College in Pennsylvania.

He earned the Master of Arts in the Classics from the University of Cambridge and his PhD in

Church history from the University of Aberdeen.

Professor Truman has a distinguished and well-known career as both a teacher and an author,

having published several books ranging from books on

reformation theology and history to biographies on figures such as John Owen and

Martin Luther. He's the author of the book entitled The Rise and Triumph of the

Modern Self Cultural Amnesia,

Expressive Individualism, and The Road to Sexual Revolution.

It's his newest book entitled Crisis of Confidence,

reclaiming the Historic Faith in a culture consumed with individualism and identity,

that is the topic of our conversation today.

Carl Truman, welcome to thinking in public.

You decided you enjoyed writing this book so much you'd do it twice

Apparently so yes it was actually the publisher's suggestion but I was very happy to do so so yeah

I think a lot's changed since I wrote it in in 2011, 2012, but a lot has changed to actually make the book more relevant, I think, rather than less so.

Yeah, I agree. I have much appreciated the book and as a confessionalist a credulist, much recommended the book.

And I think the second edition as it is entitled, you you know, crisis of confidence reclaiming the historic faith in a culture consumed with individualism and identity. It does recast.

I mean that's a long enough title and subtitle is kind of a narrative in itself and you know I do want to catch us here because you just talked about all these developments

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