- Hardcover: 256 pages
- Publisher: Thomas Nelson (April 3 2001)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0785268839
- ISBN-13: 978-0785268833
- Product Dimensions: 21.1 x 13.7 x 2.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 386 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (352 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #30,218 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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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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God designed men to be dangerous, says John Eldredge. Simply look at the dreams and desires written in the heart of every boy: To be a hero, to be a warrior, to live a life of adventure and risk. Sadly, most men abandon those dreams and desires-aided by a Christianity that feels like nothing more than pressure to be a nice guy. It is no wonder that many men avoid church, and those who go are often passive and bored to death. In this provocative book, Eldredge gives women a look inside the true heart of a man and gives men permission to be what God designed them to be-dangerous, passionate, alive, and free!
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
It's a Narrow Path that Few Find,
By M. Durham (Ashburn, VA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Wild At Heart (Paperback)
I'm not at all surprised at how easily some reviewers of Wild at Heart give in to the notion that it's a childish view of masculinity that gives men permission to be "pigs". The fact is, this walk through life and our walk with God is called a "Narrow Path that few find" for a reason. It's only natural that those who get taken out degrade into a sort of cynicism, and find it necessary to attack in the same sort of childish way they were so quick to claim to be against.John makes the point in this book that we have lost what it means to truly be man. It's been stolen, stereotyped, and severely watered down by the society we live in. Wild at Heart invites a man to take a journey with God to recover his true heart and find the life we have been promised. It's a priceless secret, and it's worth every step. Remember, it's not the critic who counts...
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars
Misses the mark. Really disappointing.,
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This review is from: Wild at Heart: Discovering the Secret of a Mans Soul (Hardcover)
The main thing I got from this book is that men are emasculated, and that it's time to take back the manhood that God intended. I got this point because the author makes it over and over and over.....and over. We finally find out there is something we can do about it around halfway through. Then it goes back to emasculation. I had high hopes for this book. I agree that men are taught to be "nice", and had hoped that this book would look at that from a Christian perspective, but I felt like it was more of a self-help book for men with low self-esteem and regrets over their career choices in life. The author spends a lot of time talking about the role women have taken (as if they're a major part of the problem) to emasculate men and that there's no dangerous people working in offices. His point I think is that we as men should be spending more time engaged in manly pursuits in order to be more like Christ....to be more dangerous....I think....I didn't get it either. There's a video series too--we did it for a men's group at my church---one of the highlights is the men on a manly weekend (campfires, skeet shooting etc.) shooting their cell-phones as a statement of freedom and independence.About 2/3 of the way through, the book switched gears and started talking about spirtual warfare. I think the point was to be that men must be strong in order to engage in the spiritual warfare that we as Christians engage in almost constantly, but the connection wasn't made. Of course women are capable of engaging in spiritual warfare too, so I didn't see the point the author was trying to make. This book missed the mark for me both as a Christian man, as well as preparing me for spiritual warfare. There's better books out there on both of these subjects.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars
Not the John Eldredge I'd Heard About,
By Mike G (CA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Wild at Heart: Discovering the Secret of a Mans Soul (Hardcover)
I'd head a lot about John Eldredge and was excited to get going through the book, however once I started reading it...I couldn't finish it. I had several problems with the book, but the main one is that the entire book is based off of a bad theological premise. Eldredge makes the assumption that since the Bible says that Adam was placed in the garden, that he was created outside of the garden of Eden (not a bad assumption at all). But because of that, all men have always longed for the outdoors, wilderness and adventure. That seems to be a pretty big jump to me. Besides the fact of the many guys I know who are incredibly Godly men who don't long to be in the wilderness...this book implies that they aren't really living like the man God created them to be. I've heard great things about Eldredge's other books, including Waking the Dead, but I'm aphrehensive about spending my money on them after my disappointment with this one
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