Editor’s note: The following essay appears in the Fall 2023 issue of Eikon. A short time before his death, eighteenth-century London Baptist pastor John Gill (1697–1771) put the finishing touches on his monumental Body of Doctrinal and Practical Divinity. Near the end of this work — which comprised a summary of the doctrine he had...

Editor’s note: The following essay appears in the Fall 2023 issue of Eikon. In his final instructions of his first epistle to the Corinthians, the Apostle Paul issues a series of five exhortations: “Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong. Let all that you do be done in love” (1...

Editor’s note: The following essay appears in the Fall 2023 issue of Eikon. In this essay, I take aim at a false antithesis pertaining to God’s purposes and calling for men. For true masculinity to be pursued and attained, we must not fall prey to a false antithesis, which wrongly posits an either/or in place...

  Editor’s note: The following essay appears in the Fall 2023 issue of Eikon. Nancy Pearcey, The Toxic War on Masculinity: How Christianity Reconciles the Sexes. Ada, MI: Baker, 2023. Nancy Pearcey’s new book defends true masculinity from its most recent critics. The toxicity, as she sees it, is not masculinity itself, but rather the...

Editor’s note: The following essay appears in the Fall 2023 issue of Eikon. Anthony Esolen. No Apologies: Why Civilization Depends on the Strength of Men. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Gateway, 2022. As a university student, I remember stumbling upon an article in The Atlantic, “The End of Men.” Women now surpassed men in the workforce —...

Editor’s note: The following essay appears in the Fall 2023 issue of Eikon. Sheila Wray Gregoire, Rebecca Gregoire Lindenbach, and Joanna Sawatsky. The Great Sex Rescue: The Lies You’ve Been Taught and How to Recover What God Intended. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 2021. Introduction According to the authors of the book, The Great Sex...