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. 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...

Editor’s Note: the following essay appears in the Spring 2021 issue of Eikon. Introduction Over the past thirty years, complementarianism has enjoyed something of a consensus position among conservative churches in North America. Over against feminist arguments that men and women should be treated equally in every respect, complementarians have insisted that God intends for men...

Editor’s note: The following essay appears in the Spring 2021 issue of Eikon. Mugged by Reality[1] They continually try to escape From the darkness outside and within, By dreaming of systems so perfect that no-one will need to be good. (T S Eliot)[2] In the Spring of 2020, as fear of COVID-19 gripped whole populations,...