How do we make sense of this cultural moment?

Jan 20, 2021 by

How do we make sense of this cultural moment?

from Psephizo: Dr Philip Jenson offers a review article on Carl R. Trueman, The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution (Wheaton, Illinois: Crossway, 2020). At the end of 2020 Carl Trueman published a book that tells the story of an inexorable and irreversible cultural shift that shapes modern thinking and discourse. It is a demanding read, so it is helpful that he sums up the argument more succinctly in various places...

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Five books from 2020: prophetic messages for 2021

Jan 5, 2021 by

Five books from 2020: prophetic messages for 2021

By Andrew Symes, Anglican Mainstream: In one sense, 2021 will be no different to any other year. Going right back to the time when Christ ascended, the task of Christians has been the same: to worship God and live in relationship with him, to participate in and support the church’s outreach and ministry of word and sacrament, to humbly serve in a needy world. In one sense, while kingdoms and empires and fashions come and go; while the church experiences periods of success and failure, power...

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A Review of Live Not By Lies. By Rod Dreher

Dec 30, 2020 by

A Review of Live Not By Lies. By Rod Dreher

by Bill Muehlenberg, CultureWatch: We all need to read Dreher’s important new book: “Open war is upon you whether you would risk it or not.” Some of you may recall that line of Aragorn to Theoden in Tolkien’s The Two Towers. And it is now fully applicable to what Christians find in the West today. As genuine persecution begins to mount, only real deal Christians will be able to stand and withstand – not the fake ones. The time of playing games is over. The time of a cross-less Christianity is...

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It’s critical the West recovers its self-belief

Dec 17, 2020 by

It’s critical the West recovers its self-belief

by John Anderson, The Australian: Recently I had the pleasure of interviewing Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay for my video podcast about their new book. Pluckrose, Lindsay, and Peter Boghossian became famous in the 2017-18 grievance studies ­affair when they manufactured deliberately absurd academic articles and had several accepted by peer-reviewed critical theory journals. The hoax revealed what many academics had known for years — that too many postmodern and critical theory journals are...

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‘Fake Law’ – the Secret Barrister’s defence of fake justice

Dec 12, 2020 by

‘Fake Law’ – the Secret Barrister’s defence of fake justice

from Christian Concern: Pavel Stroilov, consultant to the Christian Legal Centre, comments on the new book by ‘The Secret Barrister’ – Fake Law: The Truth About Justice in an Age of Lies. A couple of years ago, an anonymous author published a book entitled The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How it is Broken. The word ‘broken’ here is a pun: the book argued that the system of justice was underfunded and altogether ‘broken’. The book became an award-winning bestseller, and ‘the Secret...

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The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution, Carl Trueman

Dec 10, 2020 by

The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution, Carl Trueman

from Christianity Today: In a new book The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution, Carl Trueman argues that the sexual revolution and its triumphs result from a mix of immediate, short-term, and long-term causes. Trueman’s basic contention is this: The sexual revolution is a symptom rather than the cause of efforts to redefine human identity. People tend to see the world and themselves more as raw material that they...

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