God's Design, Our Bodies, and this Cultural Moment
How did the sentence "I am a woman trapped in a man's body" become such an integral part of the social fabric and cultural vernacular of the 21st century so that the sentence makes perfect sense to ordinary people in the Western world?
Carl Trueman's The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution has been called the best cultural analysis from a Protestant in 50 years.
I put together a 5-Session Discussion guide on Carl Trueman's book entitled "God’s Design, Our Bodies, and this Cultural Moment”. (Sessions #3 & #4 can be combined in one group discussion.)
If you don't have time to read Trueman (400+ pages), the 5-Session Discussion Guide will give you a good idea of some of the key components (Freudian Marxism, Emotivism, Death Works, Critical Theory) and my own thoughts on a winsome cultural engagement with transgenderism.
How did we arrive at this cultural moment where biology can be viewed as a form of tyranny to one’s psychologized identity? The intellectual trajectory which allowed our culture to arrive at “The Triumph of the T” can be summarized thus:
Psychologize the Self: "I am what I feel."
Sexualize the Psychology: "I am what I feel sexually."
Politicize the Sexuality: "I will cancel you if you don't celebrate my sexualized identity."
Download the 5-Session Discussion Guide here: "God’s Design, Our Bodies, and this Cultural Moment”.