The Desecration of Man with Carl Trueman
Life and Books and Everything
Clearly Reformed
4.5 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 27 April 2026
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Over the past ten years, Carl Trueman has proven to be one of the most incisive and helpful voices when it comes to identifying and understanding the problems of our contemporary world. In his new book, The Desecration of Man, Carl not only laments what we’ve lost, he calls us to a reclaim a positive vision for the future. Join Kevin and Carl as they talk about the state of higher education, where Protestants can learn from Catholics (and where they outshine Catholics), and what consecration looks like in a world that finds it exhilarating to (try to) deny humanity’s God-given constraints.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Life and Books and Everything is brought to you by Crossway, publisher of using authority well, a concise guide for men. |
| 0:19.0 | Every position of power, homes, church, boardrooms has the potential to strengthen people or to harm |
| 0:25.6 | them. |
| 0:26.0 | We need authority. |
| 0:28.3 | The answer to bad authority is not the removal of all authority or to abdicate authority, |
| 0:33.5 | but good authority. |
| 0:36.1 | And when you have bad authority, it breeds distrust and people get hurt, but good authority |
| 0:42.8 | is what's necessary for people to flourish. |
| 0:45.6 | So this book explores the domains of marriage, fatherhood church, and the workplace. |
| 0:51.0 | Jonathan Lehman offers practical scripture-based advice for daily life. This is an |
| 0:57.4 | accessible guide. I know Jonathan, he's a good friend, and he has thought a lot about this. |
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