He bases this finding on the movies that men watch, the games that we like to play and the way we like to spend our free time. If anything I find that Eldredge has a shallow view of masculinity, he states that every man has three “desperate desires” for a battle to fight, an adventure to live, and a beauty to rescue. Over the last few decades in churches people have tried to get men to open up about their feelings, but this does not make a man any less a man than he was before he opened up. I see his frustration, that sometimes Christianity can be seen as faith for a ‘softie’ but I do not think that we are turning men into little girls. However through the pages of this book there are more references to movies, fairy tales, secular literature and psychology than there are to the bible and the passages that he does reference are usually misinterpreted and bent to his own agenda.Įldredge’s problem with the church and with Christianity is that apparently we have turned men into little girls, something that he mentions a number of time throughout the book. I think that’s the most logical thing to do. Go to God as He has revealed Himself in the Scriptures and determine from there who man is, what his desires are, and what his obstacles are. In my mind if you want to figure out the secret of a man’s soul and you are a Christian then go to the very source of that person’s being, go to God. When a book’s title says that it’s about ‘ discovering the secret of a man’s soul’ and says that it isn’t a “macho-man pep rally” I am intrigued, but sadly within the first few pages of this book you realise just how untrue this is. I know that this book was controversial some years ago and so I didn’t look it up online because I didn’t want to be ‘influenced’ by other opinions. But with some books you just can’t resist… I don’t review every book that I read, nor do I want to waste your time by reviewing books that you (my lovely readers) won’t find helpful and hopefully insightful. Generally speaking I read a lot of different material, different topics from all kinds of authors.
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