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Please note: This is an off-campus event.

The Houston Centre invites you to a public lecture, “New Prometheus or Old Messiah: Where Is the Truly Human to Be Found?” Join us on Thursday, September 17, at Sage to hear from Dr. Carl R. Trueman. 

About the Event 

In this lecture, Carl Trueman addresses the question of human identity in modern culture. He discusses how humanity’s aspirations to create its own meaning and transcend all natural limits have not left people feeling like gods. Instead, he argues that humans find themselves trapped in an aimless, empty, dehumanizing nihilism. He then explores a possible path back to our true human identity as persons.

Location: 

Sage Catering & Lecture Hall at The University Centre (6331 Crescent Rd, Vancouver)

Parking: 

Paid parking is available near the Chan Centre in the Rose Garden Parkade (6278 NW Marine Dr, Vancouver).

About the Speaker

Born and raised in England, Dr. Carl R. Trueman is a graduate of the Universities of Cambridge (MA, Classics) and Aberdeen (PhD, Church History). He taught at the Universities of Nottingham and Aberdeen before moving to the United States in 2001 to teach at Westminster Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania.

From 2017 to 2018, 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. 

Widely published in both academic and popular circles, Carl is a contributing editor at First Things and Touchstone, an opinion columnist at WORLD, and a fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, DC. His most recent publications are The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Expressive Individualism, Cultural Amnesia, and the Road to Sexual Revolution (Crossway); Strange New World: How Thinkers and Activists Redefined Identity and Sparked the Sexual Revolution (Crossway); The Oxford Handbook to Calvin and Calvinism, co-authored with Bruce Gordon (Oxford University Press); and To Change All Worlds: Critical Theory from Marx to Marcuse (Broadman & Holman). His latest book, The Desecration of Man: How the Rejection of God Degrades Our Humanity (Sentinel), was published in April 2026. His writing has appeared in Deseret Journal, Wall Street Journal, American Mind, Claremont Review of Books, Public Discourse, and National Review Online.

He and his wife Catriona have two adult sons and a granddaughter.