This book has a clever cover and title:
Carl R. Trueman. Fools Rush in Where Monkeys Fear to Tread: Taking Aim at Everyone. Phillipsburg, NJ: Presbyterian & Reformed, 2011. 241 pp. 
Kevin DeYoung’s endorsement says it well:
In this collection of essays, Carl Trueman is at his brilliant, provocative, hysterical best. Reading Trueman is always enlightening and always an event. I loved the previous collections of his articles and enjoyed this one just as much. These chapters will edify, entertain, and occasionally infuriate. What more could one ask for in a book?
Books like this are challenging to categorize in my Zotero system because the book’s title and 26 essays do not intuitively convey the contents. So as I read the book, I recorded in a Zotero note basic topics that each essay addresses:
- pride, self-promotion
- individualism
- the cult of individual personality in sports, politics, and theology
- “Young, Restless, and Reformed” movement
- leadership
- coarse language and Christian freedom
- pathetic church services
- holiness
- politics, capitalism, socialism
- plagiarism, worldly evangelical subculture
- Internet, blogging, community
- obsession of Christians with culture; worldliness
- lives of eternal youth
- mid-life crisis
- opium of the people: religion (Karl Marx), pop culture, sports
- Roman Catholicism
- Roman Catholicism
- Roman Catholicism
- technology, social networking
- death, funerals
- death, funerals
- humor
- the lack of value of petitions (including the Manhattan Declaration), primarily Lausanne III
- claiming to be “hurt” when one has lost the real debate
- dealing with criticism
- using clear language
Related:
- Two similar collections of Trueman’s essays:
- Carl R. Trueman. The Wages of Spin: Critical Writings on Historic and Contemporary Evangelicalism. Fearn, Scotland: Mentor, 2004.
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Carl R. Trueman. Minority Report: Unpopular Thoughts on Everything from Ancient Christianity to Zen-Calvinism. Fearn, Scotland: Mentor, 2008. (Cf. my review.)
- Carl R. Trueman. Republocrat: Confessions of a Liberal Conservative. Phillipsburg, NJ: Presbyterian & Reformed, 2010. (Cf. my review.)
got this on my kindle last night at your recommendation – got about 75% through – loved it. Thanks man.
I need to read this. I think it’s ironic, given Carl’s trenchant (and right) criticism of evangelicalism’s celebrity culture, to see that P & R put his image on the cover, in a celebrity pose to boot. He can’t be happy about that.
I realize this post was a while ago but looking through Zotero words came across this post. Did you put this in each category with the pages numbers?
I’ve been curious about systematics too. I have them listed under the general category, but if I want a Christology bibliography if I should make a new ‘book’ with the page numbers.
FWIW, I have a folder for surveys of ST. I don’t drop those in the folders for individual doctrines.