I agree 100 %. At about 27:00 (or so) you make a particularly important point, in my opinion: the Christian worldview and Christian anthropology have been replaced by entirely secular versions even in many Christian circles. So much so that, for example, the parable of the seed that falls on different kinds of ground can be interpreted (in a Church service!) as a parable about friendship between human beings, and the song "Circle of Life" can be listened to (in the same Church service) without any comment on the shortcomings of its "philosophy" from a Christian perspective. Whenever I try to point such things out to people, I get blank stares and total disinterest, in the mildest cases.
Carl Trueman's historical survey of the genesis and development of expressive individualism manages to bypass the massive influence of Nietzsche on elite artists and cultural critics, one of whom was Marcel Duchamp who might be best described as the grim reaper of modernity
At 15:13 he states that it's "not all about us." That is the modus operandi of the current culture and has been for a while. The more I learn about expressive individualism, the more I see it everywhere in my life.
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I agree 100 %. At about 27:00 (or so) you make a particularly important point, in my opinion: the Christian worldview and Christian anthropology have been replaced by entirely secular versions even in many Christian circles. So much so that, for example, the parable of the seed that falls on different kinds of ground can be interpreted (in a Church service!) as a parable about friendship between human beings, and the song "Circle of Life" can be listened to (in the same Church service) without any comment on the shortcomings of its "philosophy" from a Christian perspective. Whenever I try to point such things out to people, I get blank stares and total disinterest, in the mildest cases.
Carl Trueman's historical survey of the genesis and development of expressive individualism manages to bypass the massive influence of Nietzsche on elite artists and cultural critics, one of whom was Marcel Duchamp who might be best described as the grim reaper of modernity
At 15:13 he states that it's "not all about us." That is the modus operandi of the current culture and has been for a while. The more I learn about expressive individualism, the more I see it everywhere in my life.
Excellent talk. Thanks a lot!
'I'm going to lose every cultural struggle I engage in for the rest of my life.' Pietistic gnosticism in a nut-shell.
Since you're in contact with him, I'd love to see him debate Owen Strachan on Aquinas.