Editor’s Note: The following article is part of a multi-denominational forum on the state of complementarianism and appears in the Spring 2024 issue of Eikon. Q: What do you believe the Bible teaches about God’s design for men and women, particularly in the home and the church? How do you view the relationship between the Bible’s teaching on the proper order of the home and the proper order of the church? A: The opening chapters of Genesis present men and women as designed by God with distinct, yet complimentary roles. This includes male headship in the home, headship that the New Testame ..read more

Editor’s Note: The following article appears in the Spring 2024 issue of Eikon. Complementarians believe that men and women are “equal before God as persons and distinct in their manhood and womanhood.”[1] Or, as John Piper and Wayne Grudem put it, complementarians believe the Scriptures assert the reality of “both equality and beneficial differences between men and women.”[2] Similarly, Denny Burk has written that the “Danvers [Statement] envisions an equality between male and female that cannot be reduced to undifferentiated sameness.”[3] Each of these statements highlights an indispensable ..read more

Editor’s Note: The following article appears in the Spring 2024 issue of Eikon. The history of feminism began where it is most likely to end: with a man. In 1837, French philosopher and ill-reputed utopian socialist Charles Fourier coined the term “feminist” to describe his belief in the equality of men and women.[1] This may seem unremarkable, especially today, but taken in the larger context of his political philosophy, the foundational errors of the feminist movement emerge. Fourier believed that the institution of marriage was inherently oppressive to women — vowing to never marry himself ..read more

Editor’s Note: The following article is part of a multi-denominational forum on the state of complementarianism and appears in the Spring 2024 issue of Eikon. Editor’s Note: We posed the following four questions on complementarianism to a variety of leaders in several evangelical denominations. While the majority responded directly to the questions, the following article is a summary response: What do you believe the Bible teaches about God’s design for men and women, particularly in the home and the church? How do you view the relationship between the Bible’s teaching on the proper orde ..read more

Editor’s Note: The following article is part of a multi-denominational forum on the state of complementarianism and appears in the Spring 2024 issue of Eikon. Q: What do you believe the Bible teaches about God’s design for men and women, particularly in the home and the church? How do you view the relationship between the Bible’s teaching on the proper order of the home and the proper order of the church? A: Beginning in the creation account of Genesis, God is depicted as making distinctions. The most obvious of which is the distinction between the Creator and his creatures. But distinctions a ..read more

Editor’s Note: The following article will appear 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 liberal toleration seized the eighteenth-century imagination, postmodern relativism and self-expressionism reign supreme today. Salters’ Hall Fallout During the seventeenth century, various forms of anti ..read more

Editor’s Note: The following article is part of a multi-denominational forum on the state of complementarianism and will appear in the Spring 2024 issue of Eikon. Q: What do you believe the Bible teaches about God’s design for men and women, particularly in the home and the church? How do you view the relationship between the Bible’s teaching on the proper order of the home and the proper order of the church? A: I believe that God made mankind in two objective genders that are revealed at birth (Genesis 1:27). I further believe that he has invested men with a role in the church and the ho ..read more

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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 of ameliorating the various sufferings seen in the world. as Tom Holland has recounted in his one-volume church history, Dominion, Holland was somewhat surprised at how Christianity changed the world into which it arrived. Christianity led to the amelioration of much of th ..read more