Human identity: A Biblical and cultural analysis

THE DESECRATION OF MAN: How the Rejection of God Degrades Our Humanity
By Carl R. Trueman
Sentinel. 256 pages. £21.99
ISBN 978 0 593 713 853

In The Desecration of Man, Carl Trueman leads the reader through the consequences of a culture jettisoning God in terms of our self-understanding, our sexual behaviours, and our approach to the big questions of morality and mortality.

Taking the warnings of Nietzsche’s madman for his framework, he demonstrates that dethroning God inevitably results in defacing humankind, reducing our dignity, eroding community, leading to an “expressive individualism” that is philosophically incoherent and psychologically insufficient.