• Matthew Y. Emerson is dean of theology, arts, and humanities at Oklahoma Baptist University in Shawnee, as well an executive director of the Center for Baptist Renewal. He’s the author of “He Descended to the Dead”: An Evangelical Theology of Holy Saturday.

  • Brandon D. Smith is chair of the Hobbs School of Theology and Ministry and associate professor of theology and early Christianity at Oklahoma Baptist University. He is also a cofounder of the Center for Baptist Renewal and host of the Church Grammar podcast.

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  • Is Nicaea Enough?: On Moral Revisionism and Appeals to the Creeds

    Editor’s Note: The following article appears in the Spring 2025 issue of Eikon. In the midst of pursuing catholicity and a common faith in a multi-denominational world, we are sympathetic to the phrase, “Nicaea is enough” (NiE)....

    Matthew Emerson, Brandon Smith  /  June 18, 2025  /  CBMW  /  Current Events

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  • WILLIAM WEBB’S REDEMPTIVE- MOVEMENT HERMENEUTIC: SOME CONSIDERATIONS AND CONCERNS

    Brandon D. Smith | HCSB Manager B&H Publishing Group, Nashville, Tennessee JBMW 20.2 [Fall 2015] **************************************************************** How does one apply the Bible to today’s life in a way that is fair to the text? This is...

    Brandon Smith  /  November 16, 2015  /   /  Complementarianism

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  • WILLIAM WEBB’S REDEMPTIVE- MOVEMENT HERMENEUTIC: SOME CONSIDERATIONS AND CONCERNS

    Brandon D. Smith | HCSB Manager B&H Publishing Group, Nashville, Tennessee JBMW 20.2 [Fall 2015] **************************************************************** How does one apply the Bible to today’s life in a way that is fair to the text? This is...

    Brandon Smith  /  November 16, 2015  /  CBMW  /  Complementarianism

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