Carl Trueman's Posts

Carl Trueman's Posts

Luther and the Jews II: The Context

Carl Trueman
Aug 27, 2010
In my last post, I tried to summarise what we might call `the Shirer thesis' which posits tight connection between Luther and the Holocaust. In this post, i want to start to offer an avenue of critique. The first thing any historian needs to do when looking at a text is ask: `Is this text typical...

Luther and the Jews II: The Context

Carl Trueman
Aug 27, 2010
In my last post, I tried to summarise what we might call `the Shirer thesis' which posits tight connection between Luther and the Holocaust. In this post, i want to start to offer an avenue of critique. The first thing any historian needs to do when looking at a text is ask: `Is this text typical...

Luther and the Jews I: The Problem

Carl Trueman
Aug 26, 2010
Most preachers and teachers have what one student of mine calls `the candy cane class' -- that sermon or lecture which is in the back pocket, so to speak, committed to memory and there to be pulled out at a moment's notice if, on a Sunday morning, somebody requests that you preach or teach at the...

Luther and the Jews I: The Problem

Carl Trueman
Aug 26, 2010
Most preachers and teachers have what one student of mine calls `the candy cane class' -- that sermon or lecture which is in the back pocket, so to speak, committed to memory and there to be pulled out at a moment's notice if, on a Sunday morning, somebody requests that you preach or teach at the...

John Henry Newman

Carl Trueman
Aug 25, 2010
Anyone interested in John Henry Newman should check out the following link to a BBC Radio 3 program on his life and influence (though you'll need to be quick -- it's being pulled off the web in 4 days). You'll find it here . It's well worth a listen. Newman should be of interest to thoughtful...

John Henry Newman

Carl Trueman
Aug 25, 2010
Anyone interested in John Henry Newman should check out the following link to a BBC Radio 3 program on his life and influence (though you'll need to be quick -- it's being pulled off the web in 4 days). You'll find it here . It's well worth a listen. Newman should be of interest to thoughtful...

A Voice from Rome

Carl Trueman
Aug 25, 2010
Lest my recent comments on mere Christianity be seen as the sad ramblings of a lone nutter, it's worth checking out the thoughts on much the same thing by Francis Beckwith here .

A Voice from Rome

Carl Trueman
Aug 25, 2010
Lest my recent comments on mere Christianity be seen as the sad ramblings of a lone nutter, it's worth checking out the thoughts on much the same thing by Francis Beckwith here .

Will the Real Christian Life and World View Please Stand Up?

Carl Trueman
Aug 25, 2010
Regarding my recent comments about events at The King's College in New York, there seems to be some confusion about what I was actually trying to say. The confusion is at least strongly implied in the Christianity Today web report, and has also been suggested in private -- and, I should stress,...

Will the Real Christian Life and World View Please Stand Up?

Carl Trueman
Aug 25, 2010
Regarding my recent comments about events at The King's College in New York, there seems to be some confusion about what I was actually trying to say. The confusion is at least strongly implied in the Christianity Today web report, and has also been suggested in private -- and, I should stress,...