The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self - Part 2

Mortification of Spin

Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals

Religion & Spirituality

4.4 • 879 Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Clearly, we live in times of sexual identity chaos. Arguments that would have sounded unconscionable just a few decades ago are now plausible, and are defended, adopted, even pridefully celebrated. How did we get here? What seeds were planted that flourished into the modern thinking of sexuality as one’s primary or even sole identity? The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution is Carl Truman’s most recent release and may be one of the most significant books of 2020. Trueman goes back a few centuries to analyze the philosophical underpinnings that gave rise to modern thought, changing even the meaning of language. Join us for an intriguing conversation about a topic that—as time passes—hits ever closer to home. We have copies of The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self that we are pleased to give away. Register for the opportunity to win one. The books come courtesy of our friends at Crossway. Show Notes ·The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self - Part 1 ·Carl Trueman Explains Liquid Modernity by The American Conservative ·7 Books to Help You Understand the Times by Tim Challies ·Faith and Law - Washington D.C. lecture

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0:00.0	This podcast is sponsored by the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals,
0:04.0	proclaiming biblical doctrine to foster a reformed awakening in today's church.
0:08.7	Stay tuned for more at the conclusion of today's program. Welcome to Mortification of Spin, a casual conversation about things that count with Carl Truman and Todd Pruitt.
0:37.0	Mortification of Spin is a weekly podcast from the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals.
0:42.3	Let's join this week's conversation.
1:03.3	This is Todd Pruitt, as always. Happy to be with you today. And I'm joined, as always, by my co-host Carl Truman. And this is the second program that I want us to focus on Carl's new book, The Rise and Triumph of the Modern
1:16.1	Self. Now, this book has been getting, I think, justifiably so. A good bit of attention.
1:23.2	And kudos to Crossway for pursuing this and wanting this in print. Carl, at the risk of puffing your
1:34.8	ego up too massive. Take the risk, man. Take the risk. It's definitely worth it. This is a marvelous
1:42.9	book. It's a very important book.
1:45.1	There's a lot of good books.
1:46.9	There's not necessarily a lot of important books.
1:49.3	I believe this is an important book.
1:51.4	I think what Tim Chalys recently wrote in his very kind words about your book were objectively true.
1:59.7	I think this is a very important book. I think
2:02.7	this year we're going to be saying and looking at this book as providing an extremely
2:11.0	important contribution to the overall discussion that we are having in our culture about what it means to be human.
2:19.7	Now, what's interesting, one of the things that's interesting about your book, and I found
2:24.4	this, and you have commented on this before, is that if a Christian wants to pick up this book
2:30.3	and right out of the gates from chapter one, read something that is a, a frontline kind of
2:38.2	attack on homosexuality, transgenderism, that kind of thing, you know, directly right from chapter
2:44.6	one, they might be a little dismayed because what you are doing, first of all, is you're getting
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