Journal: Eikon
Volume: EIKON 07:2 (Fall 2025)
Article: The Nature Of The Soul And Evangelism
Author: David Talcott

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The Nature Of The Soul And Evangelism

David Talcott

David Talcott is a Fellow of Philosophy and Graduate Dean of New Saint Andrews College. He and his wife, Anna, have seven children. His most recent book is Plato, published with P&R Publishing.

Prepared For Christ

Louise Perry, the author of the recent book The Case Against the Sexual Revolution, announced on a podcast in September 2025 that she is now a Christian.1 For a number of years she has served as one of the most eloquent secular critics of the sexual revolution. At only 33 years of age, she represents a resistance to the sexual revolution rapidly growing within some youth subcultures. Some young people are rethinking not only the transgender movement, but also the sexual revolution which birthed it. As Ryan T. Anderson recently said on R. Albert Mohler’s “In the Library” podcast, anthropology

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is the central spiritual battleground in America today.2 People in the broader world are not debating Christology, trinitarian theology, or even the doctrine of Scripture. It is the nature of man, especially the sexuality-related components, around which controversy swirls. Anderson noted that writing a book about the Trinity will not get your book banned from Amazon.com, but writing a book against the transgender movement might (Anderson’s book When Harry Became Sally was banned from Amazon.com for several years).

This cultural maelstrom over anthropology is a distinct opportunity for the church to evangelize the lost and foster cultural renewal conducive to evangelization. Those who are shattered by divorce, same-sex marriage, and now transgenderism have been broken by God in many ways and are now ready for the healing balm of the gospel. At the same time, the Christian view of nature and reality is being proved to be the true and genuine account of reality. And, this proclamation of the goodness and order inherent in God’s world is a way of fostering cultural circumstances favorable to gospel ministry. Louise Perry is an example of that. On the podcast where she announced her conversion she said this about Christianity: “I realized that if it were supernaturally true, you would expect it to be sociologically true. And observing quite how sociologically true it is was very persuasive to me and I know it has been to others as well.” Studying these issues led to her being mugged by reality. The Christian teachings about life are better for human wellbeing than any other option. The best explanation for that is that the whole teachings of Jesus

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