On Thursday, February 5, 2026, in WLH 207 (100 Wall St, New Haven, CT), the Buckley Institute was pleased to welcome Christian theologian and Grove City College Professor Carl Trueman for a presentation titled, “All That is Sacred Must Be Profaned.”
American citizens have lost faith in the institutions of our common life. Churches and schools alike have long been subjects of skepticism, and the basic bonds of family, nation, and religion are increasingly treated as obstacles to an authentic life rather than sources of meaning. Is this simply a result of the disenchantment that characterizes modernity or is something deeper and more radical to blame?
Join the Buckley Institute for a lecture that examines what is lost when nothing is considered holy. Drawing on Christian theology, Dr. Trueman will ask whether a recovery of the sacred is still possible, and what that recovery might look like.
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Born and raised in England,
Carl R. Trueman is a graduate of the Universities of Cambridge (M.A., Classics) and Aberdeen (Ph.D, Church History), and has taught on the faculties of the Universities of Nottingham and Aberdeen. 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.
Originally a specialist in Reformation and Post-Reformation Protestant thought, more recently his work has focused on identity, critical theory, and the impact of the sexual revolution. He is a Contributing Editor at
First Things and a Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington DC. His most recent books are
The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Expressive Individualism, Cultural Amnesia, and the Road to Sexual Revolution, (with Bruce Gordon)
The Oxford Handbook to Calvin and, and
To Change All Worlds: Critical Theory from Marx to Marcuse (B and H). His writing has appeared in
Deseret Journal,
The Wall Street Journal, National Review Online,
The American Mind, the
Claremont Review of Books and
Public Discourse. He and his wife Catriona, a proud Gaelic Scot, have two adult sons, a daughter-in-law, and a granddaughter.
