Editorial: Enduring Natural Differences
A very strange thing happened a couple of years ago. During Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Senate hearings for her appointment to the Supreme Court, Senator Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee read…
Jonathan Swan
Managing Editor of Eikon Journal
Ancient Paths | A Monk’s Unlikely Marriage
That an Augustinian monk and a nun would be credited with establishing the ideal of the Protestant family is truly one of the most remarkable surprises of all church history.[1]…
Salters’ Hall Redux: Southern Baptists and the Law Amendment
Editor’s Note: The following article appears in the Spring 2024 issue of Eikon. The church faces new challenges in every generation.[1] In the eighteenth century, for example, the English-speaking church…
Salters’ Hall Redux: Southern Baptists and the Law Amendment
Editor’s Note: The following article appears in the Spring 2024 issue of Eikon. The church faces new challenges in every generation.[1] In the eighteenth century, for example, the English-speaking church…
The Ancient Paths, John Gill’s Four P’s of Masculinity
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…
The Unstable Logic of Egalitarianism: A Response to Ronald Pierce, “Biblical Equality and Same-Sex Marriage”
Introduction Ronald Pierce has been engaged in the gender debates for decades.[1] As a contributor to this ongoing discussion, he has served as an editor to all three editions of…
A Return to Counter-Cultural Sexuality | Ancient Paths
The sexual ethic of the second-century Roman Empire bears some semblance to today’s sexual revolutionary era. Sexual promiscuity (especially among men), which included not only heterosexual and homosexual acts, but…
Introducing Fall 2022 Eikon
Today’s release of the Fall 2022 Eikon: A Journal for Biblical Anthropology completes its fourth volume and serves as a written monument recognizing the fifth anniversary of the Nashville Statement (2017). As such,…
On the Importance of Confessional Theological Education: An Interview with Jason K. Allen
Editor’s Note: The following interview appears in the Spring 2020 issue of Eikon. Dr. Jason K. Allen is President of Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, a Southern Baptist seminary in Kansas…