Natalie Carnes is a constructive theologian based at Baylor University who reflects on traditional theological topics through somewhat less traditional themes, like images, iconoclasm, beauty, gender, and childhood. For this work, she draws on literary and visual works as important sources and sites of theological reflection, and her interest in doing so takes her into questions of religious knowledge and authority. She has published three books: Beauty: A Theological Engagement with Gregory of Nyssa, Image (Cascade Books, 2014) and Presence: A Christological Reflection on Iconoclasm and Iconophilia (Stanford University Press, 2017), and, most recently, Motherhood: A Confession (Stanford University Press, 2020).