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Is the End of the World near? #EOTW Are the Doom-and-Gloomers right?
Constant news about suicide, ultra low birth rates
and Truth-Decay can lead to seriously sad thoughts. Carl Trueman, in his new book The Desecration
of Man, argues that modern man's
crisis of meaning stems from rejecting the fact that we are all made in the
image of God. We disrespect the reality of Imago Dei via abortion, pornography,
“free” sex, gender confusion y mucho mas.
Is our situation tagged #Operation_Hopeless ?
The Early Church survived Roman torment, may the
Lord help us to gain the victory in our current crisis.
https://www.amazon.com/Desecration-Man-Rejection-Degrades-Humanity/dp/0593713850
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What does it mean to
be a human being today? Or more succinctly, 'What is man?" Once upon a
time in the West, the answer would have been easy: Man is a creature, made in
the image of God who created him, and his life is to be ordered to those ends that
this involves. The book of Genesis, the origin of this idea, defines these as:
going forth and reproducing, subduing the earth, and living life under the
authority of God the Creator. We now live in a world that no longer agrees on
that definition. (p. ix)
Truman comments on The Magic Mountain:
In Thomas Mann's novel
The Magic Mountain, Claudia Chauchat gives voice to this when she
declares that morality should not be sought in virtue but rather in sin. In so
doing, she represents a dominant cultural pathology that is particularly
notable in today's cultural elites: Transgression
of that once considered sacred has become their primary task. And transgression
of the sacred is exhilarating precisely because it makes us feel like gods, the
creators of our own meanings and our own selves. All we need to do is cross
lines previously enforced by the idea of God and we thereby assume the role of
being gods. (p. xii)
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Pub. 2021
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/biological-essentialism-jay-hall/1140135320
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This belief that we
are autonomous, unencumbered self-creators lies at the heart of the
anthropological chaos of our day. C.S.
Lewis pointed toward this in the 1940’s in The Abolition of Man. He saw that in the modern world human beings
had been stripped of any intrinsic, necessary moral structure - stripped, in
other words, of those limits and ends that constituted their given nature. For
Lewis, they were then doomed to an existence that offered no real significance
whatsoever. (p. 13)
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In the face of such
destruction, even many who are antagonistic toward the Christian faith are
realizing that they do not wish to live in a world completely devoid of
Christianity’s influence. Hence, atheists like Richard Dawkins wish to preserve
a kind of cultural Christianity, even if not a devotional or dogmatic one. Yet
Trueman understands, rightly, that desecration demands a much more substantial
response than cultural Christianity or even mere re-enchantment: It demands
consecration - a full commitment to the creed, cult, and code of the Christian
faith, which is to say, the beliefs, practice, and morality of historic
Christianity, as found within the local church. And this, ultimately, is the
hope, the message, and the call of his book.
The Desecration of Man - A Conversation with
Professor Carl Trueman:
Why the Modern World Is at War with Human Nature -
Carl Trueman and Michael Horton:
Our new podcast:
https://thenewscasters.com/true-truth-weekly/
My site: https://totalyouth.us/
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