Carl Trueman's Posts

Carl Trueman's Posts

The secret of big evangelicalism is the secret of great comedy

Carl Trueman
Oct 17, 2014
La Diva's question about evangelicalism and sentimentality is an important one but I would like to expand its reference by pointing to the close connection between sentimentality and aesthetics. We live in an age where matters of taste, defined often by emotional, sentimental reactions, are...

Hey Haters!

Carl Trueman
Oct 16, 2014
The news was buzzing yesterday with stories of the apparent infringement of religious freedom in Houston. Ed Whelan offered a report on events in the National Review Online and Mark Movsesian today provided a characteristically nuanced legal account at First Thoughts , which corrects some of the...

In answer to Todd's question

Carl Trueman
Oct 15, 2014
In answering Todd's question about growing as a preacher, I offer the following thoughts in no particular order of priority: 1. An increasing grasp of the theological significance of the act of preaching. Too many in the Reformed world seem to make no distinction between preaching and lecturing...

The Enemy Without, the Enemy Within

Carl Trueman
Oct 14, 2014
The Roman Catholics may have had a Popessa , but here at the HQ of the Irascible, Reconditioned and Replaceable, we have our own Iron Lady who rules with a cold and ruthless fist in the name of Puppet Master. No, not La Diva, but the Mad Woman in the Attic whose long, sinister shadow can be felt...

Upcoming Movie

Carl Trueman
Oct 14, 2014
Runners and Christians everywhere will no doubt be excited to hear that a new movie is planned which will pick up the story of Eric Liddell where Chariots of Fire ended. To those of us who are runners, CoF is without doubt the best running movie ever made.

Heroes and Villains

Carl Trueman
Oct 13, 2014
Over at his blog, Jesus Creed, New Testament scholar Scot McKnight offers some interesting reflections on the neglected topic of Dietrich Bonhoeffer's attitude to the work of Rudolf Bultmann. The post is interesting for a number of reasons. First, it highlights the complexity of categorizing...

Reader's Block

Carl Trueman
Oct 9, 2014
One of the striking things about Daniel Block’s new book, For the Glory of God , is that it assumes throughout that most basic and often neglected of truths: the church is a creation and an act of God’s grace, not our response to his grace. In the strictest sense, we do not do church;...

They Have Their Exits

Carl Trueman
Oct 8, 2014
After nearly a decade at Ref21, this marks my last post on the blog. I think I outlasted every single one of the original cast, all of whom ended up going on to higher and greater things in various more respectable parts of the Evangelical Establishment. Only I remained as the one on whom all...

They Have Their Exits

Carl Trueman
Oct 8, 2014
After nearly a decade at Ref21, this marks my last post on the blog. I think I outlasted every single one of the original cast, all of whom ended up going on to higher and greater things in various more respectable parts of the Evangelical Establishment. Only I remained as the one on whom all...

Smile

Carl Trueman
Oct 3, 2014
Pascal put it best when he developed the notions of distraction and diversion: the things, the activities and preferences, which human beings develop to draw them away from thinking about reality, especially death. A good example is provided by the latest business venture of the Osteens: a radio...