A powerful exploration of how rejecting the image of God is unraveling Western culture.
Discover the answerCarl Trueman argues that our cultural destruction is the natural result of rejecting the God who made us in His image. Following Lewis' Abolition of Man, Trueman explains how the removal of God as the central definer of reality has inevitably led not just to a loss of clarity or purpose, but to mankind seeking to become God by redefining the very nature of man and recreating man as a free, autonomous self-creator.
Trueman argues that we are seeing our culture not just distort humanity, but to desecrate it. We don't just subvert what it means to be masculine or feminine, we rip it to shreds by destroying the very concept of male and female. It's almost as if our culture gets a thrill out of trangressing God's design for humanity.
The only solution to the desecration of man is a return to recognising God as our creator and man as a sacred being made in God's image. It is not enough to have a worldview or a framework of Christianity, we must consecrate ourselves to God.
From the author of The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self.
Introduction to The Desecration of Man
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