Editor’s Note: The following book review appears in the Spring 2020 issue of Eikon. George F. Will. The Conservative Sensibility. New York: Hachette Books, 2019. Introduction Combine exceptional research, brilliant storytelling, unassailable logic, and a world-class, Pulitzer Prize winning author, and you have George Will’s recent book The Conservative Sensibility. The purpose of Will’s book,...

Editor’s Note: The following book review appears in the Spring 2020 issue of Eikon. Andrew Bartlett. Men and Women in Christ: Fresh Light from the Biblical Texts. London: Inter-Varsity Press, 2019. Introduction For the last forty years, the evangelical world has been divided on the issue of women in ministry. Andrew Bartlett laments this ‘needless...

Editor’s Note: The following book review appears in the Spring 2020 issue of Eikon. Edited by James K. Beilby and Paul Rhodes Eddy. Understanding Transgender Identities: Four Views. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2019. Introduction A Christian’s engagement in the world appears more complex with each generation. In the area of transgenderism, questions are being raised...

Editor’s Note: The following book review appears in the Spring 2020 issue of Eikon. Sharon James. Gender Ideology: What do Christians Need to Know? Ross–shire, Scotland: Christian Focus, 2019. Introduction Sharon James observes, “We live in an age of unprecedented confusion about sexual identity” (14). Literature on gender studies and human sexuality is a slog...

Editor’s Note: The following book review appears in the Spring 2020 issue of Eikon. Douglas Murray. The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race, and Identity. London: Bloomsbury, 2019. The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race, and Identity begins with a quote from G. K. Chesterton: “The special mark of the modern world is not that it is...

Editor’s Note: The following book review appears in the Spring 2020 issue of Eikon. Alice Matthews. Gender Roles and the People of God: Rethinking What We Were Taught about Men and Women in the Church. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2017. In Gender Roles and the People of God, Mathews considers modern evangelicalism’s “third rail” issue—the role...