Carl Trueman

Public lectures

In 2023, Trueman delivered the thirty-sixth Erasmus Lecture, titled The Desecration of Man, presented by First Things magazine and the Institute on Religion and Public Life, the lecture examined the modern crisis of human identity in light of the Christian understanding of personhood. Trueman explored how contemporary culture’s rejection of divine order and embodiment leads to confusion about human dignity, sexuality, and purpose. The address drew upon his broader work on anthropology and cultural decline, themes developed in his books The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self and Strange New World.