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Item description for Wild at Heart: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul by John Eldredge...
In this book John Eldredge invites men to recover their masculine heart, defined in the image of a passionate God.
He invites women to discover the secret of a man's soul and to delight in the strength and wildness men were created to offer.
Helping men rediscover their masculine heart, this guide to understanding Christian manhood and Christian men offers a refreshing break from the chorus of voices urging men to be more responsible,
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If Christian men are going to change from a pitiful, wimpy bunch of "really nice guys" to men who are made in the image of God, they must reexamine their preconceptions about who God is and recover their true "wild" hearts, writes bestselling author John Eldredge in Wild at Heart: Discovering a Life of Passion, Freedom, and Adventure. Eldredge throws down the gauntlet--men are bored; they fear risk, they refuse to pay attention to their deepest desires. He challenges Christian men to return to authentic masculinity without resorting to a "macho man" mentality. Men often seek validation in venues such as work, or in the conquest of women, Eldredge observes. He urges men to take time out and come to grips with the "secret longings" of their hearts. Although the book succeeds best in its slant toward a male audience, it also strives to help women understand the implications of authentic masculinity in their relationships with men. Eldredge frames the book around his outdoor experiences and appealing anecdotes about his family, sprinkling the text with touches of humor and overlying everything with heartfelt passion. Even as he mixes eclectic ideas about masculinity from popular movies such as Braveheart with classic words from Oswald Chambers, and lyrics from the Dixie Chicks with stories from the Bible, he points to only one answer for men searching for their true wildness of heart. Writes Eldredge, "The only way to live in this adventure ... with all its danger and unpredictability and immensely high stakes ... is in an ongoing, intimate relationship with God." --Cindy Crosby
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Studio: Thomas Nelson
Pages 256
Dimensions: Length: 8.24" Width: 5.42" Height: 0.69"
Weight: 0.57 lbs.
Binding Softcover
Release Date Jan 1, 2006
Publisher THOMAS NELSON ACT#541160193
ISBN 0785287965
ISBN13 9780785287964
UPC 020049075562
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Reviews - What do customers think about Wild At Heart?
 | The Larger Story Apr 11, 2007 |
| This book could quite possibly change the face of men's ministry. Open and honest, John Eldredge walks a man gently through the wounds of his soul into the healing light and work of Christ. Most simply put, "an absolute must" for all men who desire to live from the heart and stop faking it. John is all about Jesus but not in a "religious" sort of way. I recommend a good cigar and an afternoon outdoors reading this book! | | | | Life Changing! Mar 9, 2007 |
Permission to be a MAN! and how to be a man. that is the take home from this book. Of course all from the Christian worldview, to which I am joyfully committed to. This changed my whole view of life. Ever since I became a Christian (1994) I have had inner conflict about what is appropriate masculinity. Let me explain. Before becoming a Christian I was a rough neck sort of guy, fighting, drinking, partying...bla, bla, bla. Though I was very happy with my life, I just knew there was something more.
After becoming a Christian, I wasn't sure about how to handle conflict, or disagreements. The "Church" pretty much teaches men to be "nice" and almost feminine. So I had guilt feelings just for feeling like I wanted to knock someones block off.
Now don't get me wrong, it is almost (keyword, ALMOST) always wrong to knock someones block off, however there are times when it is RIGHT to do so. Like if they are threatening to kill your family, or harm somoene in a serious way. But many teachers make it seem like all conflict is wrong and if you were more spiritual you wuoldn't even have those feelings.
This author explains WHY we have those feelings to beging with and they are NOT WRONG, though usually misdirected.
BUY and read this book. I am forever thankful to this author because it will change the way I raise my boys. | | |  | Another Wal Mart pop-psychology Christian living book, but the author makes some great points anyway Feb 25, 2007 |
I tend to be the type that looks at much of the Christian book section at Wal Mart with a certain level of disdain. That's where I found this book. I've seen it quoted in lots of other books of the same genre (masculine self-help), so I figured I'd check it out anyway.
The good points are these:
1. The basic premise is valid. Demasculinization of the culture is a definite problem. Academia and the guardians of social correctness seem to be devoted to the proposition that aggressiveness and machismo are relics of the stone age and have no place in our war-torn world. They seem to imply that letting boys scrap or play with toy guns leads to grown men brandishing nuclear weapons and leading us all teetering on the brink of global devastation. That, in a word, is crap, and Eldridge does a pretty good job of arguing why we need to jettison that kind of boloney.
2. He speaks in a language the average guy can get a hold of. He didn't write the book for seminary students, so those who seem to think it's fair game for theological nit-picking need to go find something by Sproul or MacArthur.
3. Despite the objections of a couple reviewers here, the mountain of evidence suggesting that early-childhood experiences have a profound formative impact on who we are in adulthood easily counters any objections that Eldridge is off base in locating much of the trouble with men in their boyhoods. Granted, to say that we cannot transcend those early experiences would be nonsense, both biblically and psychologically, but that is the whole point of the book, is it not? That he is calling men to do just that?
The bad points:
1. Eldridge does tend to lean a little too much on Braveheart and other pop culture phenomena as serious evidence to back his claims. While a movie illustration is helpful scattered here and there, he seems to make them a serious and recurring basis for his thesis, which comes off sounding shallow, childish, and amateur. Some solid research would have been much better.
2. His portrayal of creation and the character of God in relation to it is definitely stretching scripture, at the least. God does not view death or destruction as good. It is necessary to fight at times, and God certainly does invoke a lot of warrior imagery in the Bible, but taking the leap of calling such things an ultimate good is a bit much. It is only good in so far as it is sometimes necessary to fight wickedness by violent means. While I do not think that the Sermon on the Mount is a manifesto of pacifism, I do think Eldridge could have balanced his adrenalized approach with the kind of qualties emphasized in 1 Corinthians 13, Galatians 5, and Matthew 5-7.
The reviewer that attacks Eldridge on the basis of his physical stature is resorting to pure ad hominem, and thus this kind of argument against the book is purely subjective and irrelevant to the actual claims of the book. Does the author engage in blustering bravado and testosterone-soaked rhetoric? Yeah, he does. Does that sometimes get in the way of the larger point he's trying to make. Certainly. But it does not negate it.
As with any book that spends a long time on the best-seller list, one must be discerning when approaching a book like this. Any Christian work that becomes this popular usually suffers from too much pandering and not enough biblical exegesis and honest handling of the stickier parts of the biblical presentation of human nature, i.e., Rick Warren, Bruce Wilkinson. Consider this book a good jumping-off point for a discussion of the issues raised, rather than the final word. Certainly there are works that deal with them better than this, but for the average guy it is a good introduction. | | | | John Eldridge Gets It! Feb 21, 2007 |
| Amazing read! Everyone in a relationship needs to read this book. Very Enlightening for men as well as women. | | | | Awesome Book Feb 8, 2007 |
| This is the best book I have ever read. I can't wait to read Captivating. You can't put it down! | | | Write your own review about Wild At Heart
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