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 faced intense theological attacks on the doctrine of the Trinity. Today, doctrinal challenges revolve mainly around the ethics of human sexuality. Where Enlightenment rationalism and...

Editor’s Note: The following article is Part III of a response to Christianity Today’s April 2024 cover story on gender and appears in the Spring 2024 issue of Eikon. Parts I and II can be read here and here. One of the glorious and beautiful truths of—and legacies of—biblical Christianity is Christianity’s effect in history...

Editor’s Note: The following article is Part II of a response to Christianity Today’s April 2024 cover story on gender and appears in the Spring 2024 issue of Eikon. Parts I and III can be read here and here. Gordon Hugenberger rightly reminds us in his essay in Christianity Today of the many areas where...

The April 2024 issue of Christianity Today includes three cover stories addressing ongoing differences between complementarians and egalitarians. Titled “Division of Labor,” the cover asks whether egalitarians and complementarians are really as opposed to one another as people suppose. Inside the magazine, the editors introduce the three authors—Gordan Hugenberger, Dani Treweek, and Gaby Viesca—as “ministry...

Editor’s Note: The following series of articles appear in the Spring 2024 issue of Eikon. Part I: Denny Burk, “Do Egalitarians Need Safe Spaces?” Part II: Tom Schreiner, “Are Husbands and Wives Addressed in 1 Timothy 2:9–15?” Part III: Brad Green, “Should We Consider Mary the First Apostle?”

Editor’s Note: The following article appears in the Spring 2024 issue of Eikon. My first encounter with the Danvers Statement and CBMW was in the late 1990s. I was a young man in college, and I was at my church, a rather large Southern Baptist church, and I was talking to a staff member in...