Editor’s note: The following essay appears in the Fall 2020 issue of Eikon. A father shames a ten-year-old boy for helping his grandma: “Get out of the kitchen; that’s a woman’s work!” A woman sits dejectedly during a Sunday sermon as her pastor preaches through Ephesians 4:11–13 and says, “Only pastors and elders were given...

Editor’s note: The following essay appears in the Fall 2020 issue of Eikon. Historically, natural or general revelation has played an important role in Christian theology and the grounding of a normative ethic. For example, appeal has been made to God’s creation order to warrant such important “natural law” truths as the sanctity of human...

Editor’s note: The following essay appears in the Fall 2020 issue of Eikon. The Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) has been facing a great deal of internal controversy over the last couple of years because of the Revoice Conference, which was first hosted in 2018 by a PCA church in St. Louis. The following summer,...

Editor’s note: The following essay appears in the Fall 2020 issue of Eikon. In his book Begotten or Made?, Oliver O’Donovan sets about excavating the epistemological foundations that undergird the modern conscience. Originally delivered as part of the London Lectures in Contemporary Christianity in 1983, O’Donovan’s book is a response to a government-sponsored inquiry into...

Editor’s note: The following letter appears in the Fall 2020 issue of Eikon. From Eikon’s first issue, the editorial vision has been to direct our focus toward fostering a uniquely Protestant and evangelical formulation of natural law. The recently named president of Bethlehem College and Seminary, Joe Rigney, wrote an essay in the first issue...

Editor’s note: The following interview appears in the Fall 2020 issue of Eikon. Oliver O’Donovan is Professor Emeritus of Christian Ethics and Practical Theology at the University of Edinburgh. Andrew T. Walker is Associate Professor of Christian Ethics at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and the Executive Editor of Eikon. ATW: The Christian faith today...