Editors note: the following book review appears in the Fall 2021 issue of Eikon. Darrin W. Snyder Belousek. Marriage, Scripture, and the Church: Theological Discernment on the Question of Same-Sex Union. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2021. Darrin Belousek’s Marriage, Scripture, and the Church cannot not be quickly dismissed. His volume is well researched, historically...

Editors note: the following book review appears in the Fall 2021 issue of Eikon. Erika Bachiochi. The Rights of Women: Reclaiming a Lost Vision. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2021. Two marches, just over one hundred years apart, mark the introduction of Erika Bachiochi’s The Rights of Women: Reclaiming a Lost Vision. The...

Editors note: the following book review appears in the Spring 2021 issue of Eikon. Scott Yenor. The Recovery of Family Life: Exposing the Limits of Modern Ideologies. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2020. One of the perennial temptations for social conservatives, it is often said, is the desire to “legislate morality.” This trope was especially...

Editors note: the following book review appears in the Spring 2021 issue of Eikon. William G. Witt. Icons of Christ: A Biblical and Systematic Theology for Women’s Ordination. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2020. The subtitle expresses the book’s main thrust: it makes a case for women’s ordination. “Icons” in the title signals the conviction developed by...

Editor’s note: The following book review appears in the Spring 2021 issue of Eikon. Daniel Gilbert. Stumbling on Happiness. New York: Vintage Books, 2005. Introduction How can a person guarantee future happiness? In a postmodern society where pursuing happiness is the highest good, a book promising answers for predicting happiness has powerful appeal. It comes...

Editor’s note: The following book review appears in the Spring 2021 issue of Eikon. David VanDrunen. Politics after Christendom: Political Theology in a Fractured World. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Academic, 2020. Politics After Christendom: Political Theology in a Fractured World by David VanDrunen is a work of political theology that advances a robust understanding of...