I’m excited to share that the Spring 2021 issue of Eikon: A Journal for Biblical Anthropology is now available. You can download a free PDF or read individual essays at our website, and print subscribers should be receiving their copies soon. For those attending the Southern Baptist Convention next week in Nashville, copies will be...

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...

Editor’s note: The following book review appears in the Spring 2021 issue of Eikon. Alan Branch. Affirming God’s Image: Addressing the Transgender Question with Science and Scripture. Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2019. “I recommend you support your teenaged daughter as she begins transitioning into a boy…and you should start calling him Tom.” Receiving these words from a...