Carl Trueman joins Mere Fidelity to discuss his book The Desecration of Man: How the Rejection of God Degrades Our Humanity. They examine why "desecration" captures something "disenchantment" misses — the frenzied, ecstatic violation of what is still recognized as sacred — and trace its implications for abortion, gender, technology, and end-of-life ethics. Trueman argues the church's answer is consecration: creed, worship, and a code of hospitality that restores genuine personhood. With Derek Rishmawy and Alastair Roberts.

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Chapters

00:00 - Introduction
01:10 - Why "Desecration" and Not Just "Disenchantment"
06:16 - The Pleasure of Desecration and Alternative Sacralizing
10:07 - Is This a Perennial Problem or Something New?
14:27 - Power, Impotence, and Promethean Shame
17:35 - Dizziness, AI, and the Nothingness of Radical Freedom
22:41 - Nietzsche, Nature, and the Denial of the Given
28:42 - Consecration as Response: Creed, Cult, and Code
33:14 - The Church and End-of-Life Ethics
39:18 - Vitalism, False Friends, and the Logic of the Cross
45:38 - Two Cheers for Christianity and the Opportunity Before Us
48:51 - Freedom, Belonging, and the Gospel