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Strange New World: How Thinkers and Activists Redefined Identity and Sparked the Sexual Revolution by Carl R. Trueman / Creeds, Confessions, and Catechisms: A Reader’s Edition, edited by Chad Van Dixhoorn

Douglas Kuiper·2023-03-15
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This journal article reviews Carl Trueman's "Strange New World," a condensed version of his larger work on how Western culture's shift toward expressive individualism and the sexualization of identity has fundamentally altered modern society. The review examines Trueman's thesis that contemporary culture has replaced objective truth with subjective feelings as the standard of reality, making sexuality a defining characteristic of personal identity. This resource is valuable for Reformed readers seeking to understand and respond apologetically to the cultural forces shaping contemporary worldviews on identity and sexuality.

The following book is reviewed by Rev. Joshua Engelsma, pastor of Crete PRC in Crete, Illinois. Strange New World: How Thinkers and Activists Redefined Identity and Sparked the Sexual Revolution by Carl R. Trueman. Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2022. 204 pages, paperback. The author of this book was formerly a professor of church history at Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia, but in 2018 he resigned that post to take up a position as professor of biblical and religious studies at Grove...

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Douglas Kuiper
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2023-03-15

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