"All That Is Sacred Must be Profaned" with Carl Trueman | Notre Dame CCCG

Notre Dame Con Studies Public Lecture Series · Mar 6, 2026 · 1h 14m

While the concept of disenchantment has gained popularity over recent years as the way of addressing the malaise of modernity, is it really an adequate way of accounting for the iconoclasm that permeates our cultural moment? What is actually happening is something of profound religious significance, the moment when Nietzsche's famous Madman, dismissed in the nineteenth-century parable as insane, comes to the fore as a clear-sighted prophet.

And that raises the most important question of all: How should Christians respond to the insanity of our time?

This event is co-sponsored by the…