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 Mola, your host and president of 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 his MA in classics in the University of Cambridge

and his PhD in Church History from the University of Aberdeen.

Professor Truman has a distinguished career both as a teacher and author having published several books on Reformation theology, historiography, and biographies on figures such as John Owen and Martin Luther.

His most recent book is The Rise and triumph of the modern self, cultural

amnesia, expressive individualism, and the road to sexual revolution.

It's a timely, very important book and it's the topic of our conversation today.

Carl Truman, welcome to thinking in public.

It's great to be here, Al.

Thanks for having me on.

Yeah, a really outstanding book.

I think one of the books that has contemporary immediate relevance, but I think one of the books that has contemporary immediate relevance but I think you've written a book that is going to be referenced for a very long time.

I hope so. I think the issues it raises go have significance beyond the mere topic of the

sexual revolution which was the culminating point of the book of course but I hope it will

help Christians to think critically about culture and about some of the broader issues in our culture for the foreseeable future. Yeah, the title, the rise and triumph of the modern self the subtitle Cultural Amnesia Expressive

Individualism and the Road to Sexual Revolution that's that has quite a

subtitle but your title immediately caught my mind because the three most

important conversation partners in your book have been the same for me for 30 plus years of my life and I think you've written a brilliant

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