What are men and women? What are men and women for? As this seems to be among the most urgent questions of our moral hour, you could pardon theologians and pastors for running off to answer it and leaving their…
So much ink has been spilled debating and discussing the imago dei. Can anyone possibly improve our thinking on this topic? Is an attempt to do so arrogance? Recent study undertaken on the primary sources since the publication of the…
Andrew Bartlett. Men and Women in Christ: Fresh Light from the Biblical Texts. London: Inter-Varsity Press, 2019. Introduction For the last forty years, the evangelical world has been divided on the issue of women in ministry. Andrew Bartlett laments this…
Edited by James K. Beilby and Paul Rhodes Eddy. Understanding Transgender Identities: Four Views. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2019. Introduction A Christian’s engagement in the world appears more complex with each generation. In the area of transgenderism, questions are being…
Sharon James. Gender Ideology: What do Christians Need to Know? Ross–shire, Scotland: Christian Focus, 2019. Introduction Sharon James observes, “We live in an age of unprecedented confusion about sexual identity” (14). Literature on gender studies and human sexuality is a…
Douglas Murray. The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race, and Identity. London: Bloomsbury, 2019. The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race, and Identity begins with a quote from G. K. Chesterton: “The special mark of the modern world is not that it…
Alice Matthews. Gender Roles and the People of God: Rethinking What We Were Taught about Men and Women in the Church. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2017. In Gender Roles and the People of God, Mathews considers modern evangelicalism’s “third rail” issue—the…
Robert Louis Wilken. Liberty in the Things of God: The Christian Origins of Religious Freedom. New Haven and London, UK: Yale University Press, 2019. A widely-held paradigm in Western intellectual history is that religious freedom originated with enlightened intellectuals during the…
Abigail Dodds. (A)Typical Woman: Free, Whole, and Called in Christ. Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2019 Introduction (A)Typical Woman, by Abigail Dodds, is written to Christian women who may be struggling with what it means to be a woman in today’s world and/or…
Mary Eberstadt. Primal Screams: How the Sexual Revolution Created Identity Politics. West Conshohocken, PA: Templeton Press, 2019. One of the lessons young writers are taught is that one of the keys to good writing is to repeatedly emphasize your thesis.…
Editor’s Note: Below is an interview with Dr. R. Albert Mohler, Jr., president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. In the interview, CBMW asks Dr. Mohler about the state of complementarianism and the hermeneutical issues at stake in today’s debates…
Recently, there has been no small amount of fervor and controversy over the subject of Drag Queen Story Hour (DQSH) among religious conservatives in the United States. Indeed, the preceding months have seen this controversy develop into something of a…
