Carl Trueman's Posts

Carl Trueman's Posts

The Mad Woman Builds Our Brand

Carl Trueman
Dec 10, 2014
In honour of the fact that there is no way, no way at all, that Reformed evangelicalism has been remotely corrupted by celebrity culture, Top Men, 'great leaders,' or self-promotion, the Mad Woman in the Attic has not only designed and promoted that series of humble, gospel centred '...

Oden and Optimism about the Mainline

Carl Trueman
Dec 9, 2014
A significant part of Thomas Oden's autobiography is taken up with his account of his life in the mainline United Methodist Church and how this was affected by his repudiation of his early liberalism and his discovery of a creedal orthodoxy rooted in the patristic authors. He seems on the whole...

On Oden 2: Regarding the Dropping of Names and the Twaddle of Twitter

Carl Trueman
Dec 5, 2014
Aimee’s post earlier this week pointed to the complex relationship that inevitably exists between legitimate publicity and self-promotion. When one ends and the other begins is not easy to discern. George Orwell commented that all writers are to some extent egoists, driven by a belief that...

The Mad Woman Speaks!

Carl Trueman
Dec 3, 2014
Listeners to this week's podcast who persevere to the (bald and) bitter end are in for a special treat: the voice of the axe wielding Mad Woman calling from the Attic as she rebukes Todd Pruitt for indulging one of his many vices on air...

Oden's Patrimony

Carl Trueman
Dec 2, 2014
We three Ref Packers are all reading Thomas C. Oden’s beautifully written autobiography, A Change of Heart: A Personal and Theological Memoir , and will be posting numerous reflections on it, as well as making it the subject of a podcast. Here is an interesting comment Oden makes early in the...

Friendship sexualized, trivialized, and For Profit

Carl Trueman
Nov 26, 2014
On this week’s Spin, the Ref Pack deals with various aspects of pastoral ministry and culminates in a discussion of friendship. Three friends discuss friendship, albeit under the unfriendly, cold, and calculating gaze of the Mad Woman in the Attic. Friendship has been devastated in the modern...

Confessions and The Relevant

Carl Trueman
Nov 24, 2014
One question which I am frequently asked is whether we need a new confession, or at least some additional paragraphs or chapters, to deal with contemporary issues. It is perhaps not surprising that the most common example cited is that of gay marriage. All true Protestant confessionalists must be...

Beale for Dummies

Carl Trueman
Nov 18, 2014
In the casual chatter that precedes a Westminster faculty meeting, Greg Beale once commented that a certain person ‘often gives me good advice on my work.’ 'What? Make it shorter?’ was my response. Cue silence, death stare, and a perceptible atmospheric shift from the feeling...

Who is the belle of the bald?

Carl Trueman
Nov 12, 2014
Given the title which the Mad Woman in the Attic has given to today's podcast, and if Tim Keller is the bald, La Diva still hasn't told us if it is myself or Todd who is the beautiful. Ah well, in the land of the bald, the one haired man is king. That is some consolation...

Of sponsoring gift baskets and other cultural problems

Carl Trueman
Nov 12, 2014
My fellow Ref Packers have drawn my attention to the fact that Kevin DeYoung has republished his (and Ryan Kelly's) part of a friendly exchange we had recently in the British evangelical journal, Foundations . I do not want to rehearse the arguments of my original piece but I do want to...