April 7, 2026
Bestselling author Carl R. Trueman’s powerful call to rediscover the truth that once gave our lives meaning.
(Washington DC): The Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC) is pleased to announce a new book by bestselling author Carl R. Trueman, a fellow in EPPC’s Evangelicals in Civic Life program. Published today, The Desecration of Man: How the Rejection of God Degrades Our Humanity (256 pp. Sentinel ISBN-10 0593713850) reveals the fundamental cause of Western society’s surging unhappiness and brutality: the rejection of God. The book has already become a bestseller in its category on Amazon.
Church attendance has fallen. Suicide rates have climbed. Birth rates have plummeted. What is driving these issues in the West? Trueman argues that modern man’s crisis of meaning stems from a rejection of the fact that he was made in the image of God.
Unmoored from the basic moral fact that secures human dignity, we violently degrade our own minds and bodies through abortion, pornography, casual sex, gender transitions, and more—and in this degradation, we blaspheme against God himself, with devastating practical and spiritual consequences. The Desecration of Man speaks to those troubled by the spiritual sickness of our time and points toward reconsecration to a God who is alive and loving as a solution.
“The desire to understand three aspects of modern culture motivated me to write this book: to explain why modernity promises freedom but delivers bondage; why human beings use their exceptional abilities to convince themselves they are not exceptional at all; and why we take such evident delight in these things, a delight that talk of “disenchantment” does not really explain. Desecration is a better category. As we desecrate God’s image, we triumph exultantly over God – but only at the cost of degrading ourselves. And only consecration – a recovery of the beliefs, worship, and practical morality of the Christian faith – can truly make us fully human again.” – Carl Trueman, Author
“We are made in God’s image and likeness. It would be hard to find a more compelling, colorful, cogent exposition of this truth than the one provided by this book.” —Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Archbishop Emeritus of New York
“One of the sharpest diagnosticians of our many cultural malaises offers us a searing analysis of a question that has long baffled secular humanism: Are we minds or machines?” —James Orr, Associate Professor of Philosophy of Religion at the University of Cambridge
Published by Sentinel, The Desecration of Man is available in hardcover and e-book formats.
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