Lecture 12 - Dr. Carl Trueman

Question 1

Russo’s reformed ethics

Answer 1

1. Morality is a matter of emotional reactions.
2. Identity is understood in phycological terms.
3. The terminology for morality is just an expression of heartfelt emotions.

Question 2

Sigmond Freud believed

Answer 2

1. Sexual satisfaction is ultimate to humanity – the prototype of all happiness, sex the “the central point of life”
2. Sexuality starts becoming your identity.
3. Being civilized means oppressing sexuality

Question 3

Political aspect

Answer 3

1. Sexual Revolution – 1936
2. Herbert Recuse - sexual liberation is essential to political liberation
3. Dialectic Sex – 1970 – Firestone

Question 4

Therapeutic - understanding the self

Answer 4

1. Rejections of original sin
2. Spontaneity being important - self awareness
3. Individualistic - finding solutions within (dancing at each other instead of with each other)

Question 5

Pornography

Answer 5

1. Gordon the Crtique.com, porn is more degrading than prostitution
2. The body is degraded in technology (Hookup culture is exchanging a commodity)
3. Aesthetics instead of ethics

Question 6

Important to remember

Answer 6

Artists, musicians, poets, movie stars have become the unacknowledged legislatures of our day.

Question 7

The church as a culture

Answer 7

1. The church is to be the Christians primary culture.
2. Christianity is never less than doctrinal, but it is always more than that – it is practical.
3. Choice becomes the hallmark of the secular mind. When church becomes a choice, it becomes part of the secular culture.

Question 8

History and identity founded in God matters in the Christian community.

Answer 8

1. Preach on narrative (we are part of a longer history, a history foundational to our identity because the history is true)
2. Preaching that underlies the importance of history
3. Behavior is belief

Question 9

Humans are embodied

Answer 9

1. Body language is important. (Jesus looks at Peter, heals with His hand).
2. Pornography, the hookup culture, ignoring each other at restaurants. Ultimately this is a low view of our bodies.
3. Our bodies are important because they are part of what it means to be human. Our imbodied personhood connects us to history and to each other.

Question 10

How to return to a healthy view of our physical body

Answer 10

1. Except the body’s extrinsic authority, because our bodies are created in time and space. Our body defines us.
2. Complementarion view of women and men’s bodies in marriage.
3. Asserting beauty

Question 11

How to implement a godly view of sexuality

Answer 11

1. Practice what we preach
2. Think about the significance of our bodies
3. We need to make sure we aren’t just reacting to the world around us, but rather that we manifest the beauty that is in the gospel – ultimately from God.