Like many prophets, Nietzsche was ahead of his time. There is a time lag between announcing the “death of God” and dealing with the consequences of that death. In The Desecration of Man, Carl Trueman argues persuasively that we are now living in the era of Nietzsche’s Madman—Nietzsche’s fictional character who announces God’s death to a shocked audience and then realizes that it will take time for the news to sink in. Nietzsche predicted the desecration that we witness virtually everywhere we look. In this review of The Desecration of Man, Professor Chad Ragsdale explores Trueman’s thesis and how our view of God determines our view of ourselves.
Theology Begins with Abiding in Christ Theology starts not with abstract ideas but with abiding in Jesus, where love, dependence, and union shape how we think about God. Rather than […]
