Carl Trueman

September 7, 2018Written by Rick Shrader

Carl Trueman on Brand

“ . . . one of the most insidious aspects of modern culture: the celebrity brand. . . and the consumer is conned into buying something that is not what it seems to be. . . or is this just one more area where Christians are actually in the vanguard of setting new levels of ethical and cultural mediocrity? Of course, this ties in with one of my pet peeves: that the evangelical subculture simply replicates (usually in a more mediocre way) the practices, values, and behavioral patterns of the advanced consumerist societies.”

Carl Trueman, Fools Rush In Where Monkeys Fear To Tread. Kindle, 85.

Source: Fools Rush In Where Monkeys Fear To Tread

I found Trueman as an author not long ago and have thoroughly enjoyed him. I read this delightful book on my Kindle, then I bought two hard copies and have given them both away. Carl Trueman is an Englishman by birth and now teaches at Westminster Se …

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