The Image of God and Expressive Individualism - Carl Trueman on the BreakPoint Podcast
Breakpoint
Colson Center
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🗓️ 19 April 2021
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
John Stonestreet visits with Dr. Carl Trueman, a Professor of Biblical and Religious Studies at Grove City College, Pa, and a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Faith and Freedom.
Dr. Trueman's book, The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution, has been called the most important book of the past decade and is the featured resource for the Colson Center this month. Make any gift to the Colson Center during the month of April and we'll send you a copy of Dr. Trueman's book.
We invite you to listen to John's discussion with Carl Trueman as they talk about the Image of God, the theme of the 2021 Wilberforce Weekend. Dr. Trueman has a special perspective to share and we are excited to have him in our lineup for the conference.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, so pleased to welcome the one and only Dr. Carl Truman, really, of any book that has been written that would best make the case for why we are tackling the topic that we are from the bewildering variety of angles that we're tackling this topic of the image of God. |
| 0:20.4 | Dr. Truman's book, The Rise and Triumph of |
| 0:23.2 | the Modern Self just puts together so much important thought within a Christian framework, |
| 0:28.6 | and it's just absolutely essential. He joins me now, Dr. Truman. Great to see you. Thanks so much |
| 0:34.2 | for joining us here. Good to see you, too, John. Please call me Carl. I hate to be |
| 0:38.6 | called Dr. Truman. Man, if I ever, I don't have a PhD, but if I ever did, I'd make my mom call me that. |
| 0:45.0 | It would just be such an accomplishment. I'd have to do it. Well, listen, we're so thrilled to have |
| 0:52.0 | you at the World War Force weekend this May in Fort Worth, Texas. We're going to have you at the World War Force Weekend this May in Fort Worth, Texas. |
| 0:56.5 | We're going to be looking at the idea of the image of God. |
| 0:59.3 | And I'd love for you to just comment, the case that I'm trying to make here, |
| 1:02.8 | or that we're trying to make, and what we're doing at World Warfare's Weekend, |
| 1:06.1 | is that the image of God is a crucial theological foundation for Christians to have. |
| 1:12.9 | The image of God is a crucial lens through which to understand almost every significant |
| 1:19.0 | cultural issue we face. And the image of God is going to be a crucial component of our |
| 1:24.5 | cultural witness. Maybe I'm overstating it because I want people to come to |
| 1:28.6 | the conference, which I do, but I think the image of God is that important. Yeah, I would agree. |
| 1:34.5 | I mean, this is to put it rather simplistically, but I think it captures a central truth of the |
| 1:42.0 | world in which we are currently living. The big question I think of the day is, |
| 1:46.7 | are human beings more than the stuff that they're made of? Are we just lumps of matter attached to |
| 1:54.0 | a sort of nebulous will that can essentially use our bodies and our persons to be whatever we want to be, or does being human carry |
| 2:03.7 | with it, for want of a better word, a kind of moral shape or impose upon us certain responsibilities? |
| 2:10.2 | Does it come with an intrinsic nature that means we can flourish in some ways and will not flourish |
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