Carl R. Trueman

Carl R. Trueman is a fellow in EPPC’s Evangelicals in Civic Life Program. His work focuses on helping civic leaders and policymakers better understand the deep philosophical and cultural roots of our current social malaise. In addition to his scholarship on the intellectual foundations of expressive individualism and the sexual revolution, Trueman is also interested in the origins, rise, and use of critical theory by progressives and the current crisis in anthropology. He serves as a professor at Grove City College.  

Trueman is the author of the best-selling, award-winning 2020 book The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to the Sexual Revolution. His latest book, The Desecration of Man, builds on his previous work in examining the confusion that now exists regarding the question of what it means to be human, and sets this against the background of our culture’s repudiation of the idea that we are made in God’s image.  George Weigel describes it as “essential reading for everyone who cares about the human future.”  

Trueman has published widely, with scholarly articles in books from Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, and Brill. His commentaries on contemporary issues appear regularly in First Things, where he is a contributing editor, and he has also published in The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Public Discourse, Deseret News, and Catholic World Report, among other outlets. 

Born and raised in England, Trueman is a graduate of the Universities of Cambridge (M.A.) and Aberdeen (Ph.D), and has taught on the faculties of the Universities of Nottingham and Aberdeen before moving to the United States in 2001 to teach at Westminster Theological Seminary. In 2017-18 he was the William E. Simon Visiting Fellow in Religion and Public Life in the James Madison Program at Princeton University. Since 2018, he has served as a professor at Grove City College in the Calderwood School of Arts and Humanities. In 2025-26 he was the Busch Family Visiting Research Fellow at the Center for Citizenship and Constitutional Government at the University of Notre Dame.

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