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A review by cassiakarin
The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution by Carl R. Trueman
5.0
The triumph was truly felt upon completing this book! Okay, this book is enormously and substantially valuable in our culture and in our churches right now. It needs to be read, and studied, and...understood by our young people, like me, today. It is a difficult listen. I've been told that reading it with eyes helps enormously - I listened. Once the multiple new terms and historical names and theories started getting jumbled or lost in my small mental storage I sped things up and listened faster. I listened for the wide strokes, broad themes, and cultural benchmarks that I could relate to and evaluate within my own little world. Even with this, and with my small storage capacity for dates, names, and ideas, I found the book immensely helpful for building and shaping an honest and grounded cultural worldview. I learned a LOT.
One of the things that I appreciated most about Trumans approach to writing this book is his carefulness as a historian. This book takes discernment. Truman is respectful and careful with rendering *meaning* to or behind historical figures and accounts. He does not form his thesis before combing through or cherry-picking facts out of history. He is a true and honest historian. Curating historical data and synthesizing it into a useful dialogue for our understanding of our today. He is respectful of both those people of the past in representing them, and of individuals and groups today.
I would like to go back through this book with fingers and eyes and truly study it. It is a fantastic resource for grounding oneself into the earth and time today. How valuable it is to be useful to this era and to our surrounding generations simply by knowing clearly where we stand.
One of the things that I appreciated most about Trumans approach to writing this book is his carefulness as a historian. This book takes discernment. Truman is respectful and careful with rendering *meaning* to or behind historical figures and accounts. He does not form his thesis before combing through or cherry-picking facts out of history. He is a true and honest historian. Curating historical data and synthesizing it into a useful dialogue for our understanding of our today. He is respectful of both those people of the past in representing them, and of individuals and groups today.
I would like to go back through this book with fingers and eyes and truly study it. It is a fantastic resource for grounding oneself into the earth and time today. How valuable it is to be useful to this era and to our surrounding generations simply by knowing clearly where we stand.