Editor’s note: The following essay appears in the Fall 2021 issue of Eikon. In the past few years, numerous Christian scholars have produced books garnering national attention. Kristen Kobes Du Mez was interviewed on NPR about her book Jesus and…
Editor’s note: The following essay appears in the Fall 2021 issue of Eikon. From October 7–9, 2021, Dallas’s Chase Oaks Church hosted the fourth annual convention of Revoice, a conference conceived “to support and encourage Christians who are sexual minorities…
Editor’s note: The following essay appears in the Fall 2021 issue of Eikon. 1. Understanding Human Constitution In his recent book, Embodied: Transgender Identities, the Church & What the Bible Has to Say,[1] Preston Sprinkle helpfully maps out the four…
Editor’s note: The following essay appears in the Fall 2021 issue of Eikon. The Ancient Paths A central feature of the “long” eighteenth century — a marker of time used by historians to denote the period in Anglo-American history running…
Editor’s note: The following essay appears in the Fall 2021 issue of Eikon. Is mathematics next on the chopping block to be deconstructed as a form of “Western imperialism”? A young woman describing herself as a teacher, PhD student, and “social justice…
Editor’s note: The following essay appears in the Fall 2021 issue of Eikon. “Does Bluey being blue ruin gender stereotypes?” This was the question a reader asked after I recommended the Australian preschool cartoon “Bluey,” a show about a six-year-old…
Editor’s note: The following essay appears in the Fall 2021 issue of Eikon. In recent months, a certain church body made headlines after electing and installing Meghan Rohrer as bishop of their Sierra Pacific Synod. “Evangelical Lutheran Church elects first…
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…
Editor’s Note: The following 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…
Editor’s Note: The following 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…
Editor’s Note: The following review appears in the Spring 2021 issue of Eikon. Daniel Gilbert. Stumbling on Happiness. New York, NY: Vintage Books, 2005. Introduction How can a person guarantee future happiness? In a postmodern society where pursuing happiness is the…
Editor’s Note: The following 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…
