Faith & Reason | Q&A, Expressive Individualism: The Toxic Worldview We Breathe Every Day | Spinney

“Expressive Individualism: The Toxic Worldview that We Breathe Every Day” Question and Answer Discussion Panel
Expressive Individualism is probably the dominant worldview in America today. We can understand neither our current political environment nor contemporary culture without understanding EI. But EI is not merely a mentality embraced by those who reject Christianity. It has leaked into the church and is likely the biggest threat today to your spiritual health. No one is immune to Expressive Individualism. The Lord Jesus Christ's people must expose and resist it.
Dr. Spinney teaches American history courses and also the college’s Historiography course, which is a semester-long examination of what it means to do history from a Christian perspective. The textbook that is currently being used in PHC’s sophomore-level American History course was written by Dr. Spinney. He has published two additional history books (a comprehensive history of Chicago and a history of 1935-1950 Nashville, Tennessee) and numerous ministry-related booklets with titles like Did God Create Sports Also? Thinking Christianly About Sports, Peeking Into the Devil’s Playbook: Satan’s Strategies for Tempting Christians to Sin, Why Do Bad Things Happen to Good People? Thinking Biblically About the Problem of Sin in Our World, and Dressed to Kill Thinking Biblically about Modest and Immodest Clothing. In addition to serving as a pastor for six years, Dr. Spinney was formerly a member of the faculty at Trinity International University (Deerfield, IL). Dr. Spinney holds a Ph.D. in History, from Vanderbilt University, also an M.A. in History from Vanderbilt University, and a B.A. in Government and History from Harvard University.
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