The rest of the book is given over to describing the stages men must go through in order to be fully masculine: Boyhood (chapters 3-4), Cowboy (chapters 5-7), Warrior (chapters 8-9), Lover (chapters 10-11), King (chapters 12-13), and Sage (chapter 14). They live in the body of a man, have all the responsibilities of a man, yet are uninitiated into the role of masculinity. They are dedicated to what Eldredge describes as a problem in Chapter 1: that the world is filled with partial men, who are mostly boys. The Way of the Wild Heart contains 15 chapters in all. This volume adds to what Eldredge wrote in the first volume. The point of this review is not to evaluate and critique that work, but to evaluate the subsequent book written by Eldredge, The Way of the Wild Heart. For you are his son.Įldredge has written a number of books about male masculinity, the most popular being Wild at Heart. Whatever your age may be, your Father is ready to take up your journey. And how parents can offer that initiation to their sons. "God wants to father us." In The Way of the Wild Heart, Eldredge reveals how God comes to a man and takes him on the masculine journey, how nearly all the events of a man's life can come togther to provide the initiation he never received. "We aren't meant to figure life out on our own," says John Eldredge. Their fears, anger, boredom, and their many addictions all come out of this fatherless place within them, a fundamental uncertainty in the core of their being. They find themselves on their own to figure life out, and that is a lonely place to be. Whatever their circumstance, they have no man actually taking them through the many adventures, trials, battles and experiences they need to shape a masculine heart within them. We live in a time where most men (and boys) are essentially fatherless. The path whereby they come to know they are a man, and are able to live and love from a deep, centered strength. It's a guide to the process of masculine initiation, that ancient path every boy and man must take if they would become the man they long to be. This is a book about how a boy?and a man?becomes a man.
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