{"id":74432,"date":"2022-03-29T17:23:19","date_gmt":"2022-03-29T23:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fairlatterdaysaints.org\/store\/?post_type=product&p=74432"},"modified":"2025-10-16T12:55:39","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T18:55:39","slug":"strange-new-world-how-thinkers-and-activists-redefined-identity-and-sparked-the-sexual-revolution","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/fairlatterdaysaints.org\/store\/product\/strange-new-world-how-thinkers-and-activists-redefined-identity-and-sparked-the-sexual-revolution\/","title":{"rendered":"Strange New World: How Thinkers and Activists Redefined Identity and Sparked the Sexual Revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cCarl Trueman is one of the truly vital thinkers of our time. In\u00a0Strange New World<\/i>, he explains just how the West\u2019s preoccupation with a navel-gazing concern for emotional \u2018authenticity\u2019 has crippled our ability to think\u2015and is consequently undermining the future of our civilization. A true must-read.\u201d
\n\u2015Ben Shapiro<\/strong>,<\/b>\u00a0Host,\u00a0The Ben Shapiro Show<\/i>; Editor Emeritus, The Daily Wire; author,\u00a0The Authoritarian Moment<\/i><\/p>\n

\u201cAt last, one of the most important books of the century is available in a more accessible format for the general reader! If you are confused about the moral and spiritual chaos overtaking Western civilization, and anguished over the seeming impotence of Christianity to stop the collapse,\u00a0Strange New World<\/i>\u00a0is the book you absolutely must read. Here, in a single volume, is the best diagnosis of our cultural crisis. Anyone who wants to get themselves and their children and communities through this new dark age with their faith and sanity intact needs to read Carl Trueman\u2019s blockbuster.\u201d
\n\u2015Rod Dreher,<\/strong>\u00a0author,\u00a0The Benedict Option<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Live Not by Lies<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cAs I have traveled the world, I have often hired tour guides to lead me through unfamiliar locations. Their expertise has always proven helpful in explaining what I am seeing and experiencing. And in much the same way,\u00a0Strange New World<\/i>\u00a0is essentially a guided tour to modern times. Trueman acts as a wise and trusted guide to a culture that has become increasingly uncomfortable and unfamiliar. I highly recommend you take the tour.\u201d
\n\u2015Tim Challies,<\/strong>\u00a0blogger, Challies.com<\/p>\n

\u201cAn essential primer on how the world went mad. Trueman traces the origin and history of our worst ideas so that the nonscholar can understand why so many intellectuals are talking complete nonsense with such absolute conviction. A good read, a smart read, and an important read.\u201d
\n\u2015Andrew Klavan,<\/strong>\u00a0author,\u00a0The Great Good Thing<\/em>; host,\u00a0The Andrew Klavan Show<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cCarl Trueman is one of the most important public intellectuals of our time, and this book,\u00a0Strange New World<\/i>, should be required reading for anyone seeking to understand our present age. Trueman offers a brilliant analysis of the modern mind, the autonomous self, identity politics, and the sexual revolution. This book demonstrates courage on every page, and the reader will draw courage from reading it. Read it and tell your friends about it.\u201d
\n\u2015R. Albert Mohler Jr.,<\/strong>\u00a0President and Centennial Professor of Christian Theology, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary<\/p>\n

\u201cIn a rare combination of erudition and clarity, Carl Trueman explains us to ourselves. From Rousseau and the Romantics, through Nietzsche, Marx, and Freud, to today\u2019s increasingly incoherent gender theorists, Trueman outlines the history of ideas that brought us almost ineluctably to this moment. But he doesn\u2019t leave us here; by revealing the wrong turns, he maps out a way forward, all the while manifesting the integrity and charity of a true gentleman. In a world of confusion,\u00a0Strange New World<\/i>\u00a0is crystal clear; its author, the teacher we need today.\u201d
\n\u2015Erika Bachiochi,<\/strong>\u00a0author,\u00a0The Rights of Women: Reclaiming a Lost Vision<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThis book is a You Are Here marker for disoriented pilgrims in postmodernity. Its sober analysis of where we are and how we got here will equip readers to engage contemporary confusion over identity.\u00a0Strange New World<\/i>\u00a0makes the important argument of Carl Trueman\u2019s earlier work,\u00a0The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self<\/i>, widely accessible and an excellent resource for classrooms, small groups, and individual inquiry.\u201d
\n\u2015Jennifer Patterson,<\/strong>\u00a0Director of the Institute of Theology and Public Life, Reformed Theological Seminary<\/p>\n

Carl R. Trueman<\/span>\u00a0(PhD, University of Aberdeen) is professor of biblical and religious studies at Grove City College. He is a contributing editor at\u00a0First Things<\/span>, an esteemed church historian, and a fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. Trueman has authored or edited more than a dozen books, including\u00a0The Creedal Imperative<\/span>;\u00a0Luther on the Christian Life<\/span>; and\u00a0Histories and Fallacies<\/span>. He is a member of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church.<\/p>\n

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From Philosophy to Technology, Tracing the Origin of Identity Politics<\/strong><\/p>\n

How did the world arrive at its current, disorienting state of identity politics, and how should the church respond? Historian Carl R. Trueman shows how influences ranging from traditional institutions to technology and pornography moved modern culture toward an era of \u201cexpressive individualism.\u201d Investigating philosophies from the Romantics, Nietzsche, Marx, Wilde, Freud, and the New Left, he outlines the history of Western thought to the distinctly sexual direction of present-day identity politics and explains the modern implications of these ideas on religion, free speech, and personal identity.<\/p>\n

For fans of Trueman\u2019s\u00a0The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self<\/em>,\u00a0Strange New World<\/em>\u00a0offers a more concise presentation and application of some of the most critical topics of our day. Individuals and groups can work through the book together with the\u00a0Strange New World Study Guide<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Strange New World Video Study<\/em>, sold separately.<\/p>\n