![]() ![]() ![]() Eldredge frames the book around his outdoor experiences and anecdotes about his family, sprinkling the text with touches of humor and overlying everything with heartfelt passion. He urges men to take time out and come to grips with the "secret longings" of their hearts.Īlthough the book is primarily intended for a male audience, it also strives to help women understand the implications of authentic masculinity in their relationships with men. Men often seek validation in venues such as work, or in the conquest of women, Eldredge observes. He challenges Christian men to return to what he characterizes as authentic masculinity without resorting to a "macho man" mentality. Eldredge claims that men are bored they fear risk, they refuse to pay attention to their deepest desires. "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. Despite this criticism, it remains a favorite in many evangelical circles, and a top seller. The book had a very favorable reception by many, including Chuck Swindoll, who called it "the best, most insightful book I have read in at least the last five years." It also received harsh criticism, with some claiming that the book misuses scriptural references, and that Eldredge has projected his own personality traits onto God in order to support his viewpoint. From the back cover: "In Wild at Heart, John Eldredge invites men to recover their masculine heart, defined in the image of a passionate God." Its subtitle is: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul. Wild at Heart is a book by John Eldredge published in 2001, on the subject of the role of masculinity in contemporary evangelical Christian culture and doctrine.
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