Ron Highfield (PhD, Rice University) is Professor of Religion at Pepperdine University, Malibu, California. He is the author of Great is the Lord: Theology for the Praise of God (Eerdmans, 2008), God, Freedom & Human Dignity: Embracing a God-Centered Identity in a Me-Centered Culture (Intervarsity Press, 2013), The Faithful Creator: Affirming Creation in an Age of Anxiety (Intervarsity Press, 2015), The New Adam: What the Early Church Can Teach Evangelicals (and Liberals) About the Atonement (Cascade, 2021), and a contributor to Four Views on Divine Providence (Zondervan, 2011).