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Summary: Melodramatic!
Review: I recommend "Wild at Heart" The bookBut not the "field manual" The manual is a work-book intendedto used as part of a "12 week study" In it the author assumes your "raymond" from "Everybody Loves Raymond" not all of us men are. In my case I'm "Robert".The study book requires a support group. Eventhough Eldredge [the author] denys it. He is a thrill-seekerwho's hook on bloody action films. [ his hobbies include "cliff diving", "rock climbing",& "fishing amongst grizzlies".] "Braveheart" is one of his favorite films. And reading between the lines, he seem to be promoting bullying. With his "anger is good"and "be dangerous".
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Summary: Melodramatic!
Review: I recommend "Wild at Heart" The bookBut not the "field manual" The manual is a work-book intendedto used as part of a "12 week study" In it the author assumes your "raymond" from "Everybody Loves Raymond" not all of us men are. In my case I'm "Robert".The study book requires a support group. Eventhough Eldredge [the author] denys it. He is a thrill-seekerwho's hook on bloody action films. [ his hobbies include "cliff diving", "rock climbing",& "fishing amongst grizzlies".] "Braveheart" is one of his favorite films. And reading between the lines, he seem to be promoting bullying. With his "anger is good"and "be dangerous".
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Summary: An Adventurous Journey
Review: My best friend gave me a copy of the WILD AT HEART book, which I breezed through in one day. It is interesting reading, and a welcome change from most of the Christian Men's ministry books on the market today. The author sounds like a guy you know, or maybe yourself. To illustrate his points, he uses examples from movies you've seen, not the few movies that earn the Christian seal of approval. This will be a sticking point with some hard-liners, and the author acknowledges this. Personally, I find this kind of writing accessible and I wish there were more like it.I thought the book lacked detail and practicality. It seemed almost too hypothetical or theoretical. That's where this FIELD MANUAL comes in. It is a thorough, thought provoking workbook which guides you through each idea of the book. They should be sold as a set, or better yet, combine the two. This workbook makes the book better. Guys, if you are bored by your day-to-day, wondering if this Christianity is all there is, you should read this book. Modern Christianity does tame men from there innate longing for adventure and battle, which is the masculine spirit God purposefully created within us. To learn about this most basic element of our spirit which we have so far been taught is barbaric or sinful is incredibly exciting and somehow freeing. This book could truly add a provocative new element to your life.
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Summary: Perpetuates the agony
Review: The book, _Wild at Heart_, is a poor attempt by Eldredge to "help" men find their 'adventure', and this Field Manual is just an extension of that misfortune. You would be much better off skipping both the book and the manual, and looking to the Bible and your own wife (for those of you who are married).
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Summary: Not Just a Study Guide...
Review: The Field Manual is not just one more study guide to grind out some more revenue from a popular book. It is a structured journey deep into the heart that goes far beyond the original book. God will change the man who slowly, humbly, prayerfully works through this book. Profound and challenging for both individual and group study.
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Summary: Frightening, ignorant book
Review: The Wild at Heart field manual is an excellent supplement to a a thought provoking book. Wild at Heart is a home run and the field manual helps you understand yourself. (See my review of Wild at Heart if you want more information on that book.)
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Summary: Causes you to seek life wonderfully and creatively lived
Review: The Wild at Heart field manual is an excellent supplement to a a thought provoking book. Wild at Heart is a home run and the field manual helps you understand yourself. (See my review of Wild at Heart if you want more information on that book.)
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Summary: Frightening, ignorant book
Review: This book is a call to arm for misogynists to take back there throne so high a top women. It assumes a "natural" masculinity that is equated to emotional distance, and dominance that implicitly states that men are superior and more powerful than women. Domestic abuse is explained as a result of over-investing in a man's relationship to a female, instead of being the product of a world that falsely trains men to believe that they must dominate at all costs - exactly as this book tends to do. Its rhetoric reminds me of the KKK's "oppressed white community" mantra in its message that men have been "stripped" of power. Why don't we embrace in a world that has made some strides in gender equality, and try to further a society in which masculinity and femininity are equally valued, and allowed to manifest in men OR women???
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Summary: Frightening, ignorant book
Review: This book is a call to arm for misogynists to take back there throne so high a top women. It assumes a "natural" masculinity that is equated to emotional distance, and dominance that implicitly states that men are superior and more powerful than women. Domestic abuse is explained as a result of over-investing in a man's relationship to a female, instead of being the product of a world that falsely trains men to believe that they must dominate at all costs - exactly as this book tends to do. Its rhetoric reminds me of the KKK's "oppressed white community" mantra in its message that men have been "stripped" of power. Why don't we embrace in a world that has made some strides in gender equality, and try to further a society in which masculinity and femininity are equally valued, and allowed to manifest in men OR women???
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Summary: What's the Real Purpose?
Review: Though Eldredge puts a lot of thought and energy into the book it appears to lose ground in parts to an disquieting echo of the "me" generation. Giving your life to Christ allows you to understand it's not all about "me." If you feel you have lost the zip in your life and your marriage there's a higher purpose other than gaining (or regaining) the "dangerous" aspect of your masculinity. I would recommend reading Warren's "The Purpose Driven Life" with WAH. Figure out why you are here first, the rest will fall into place.
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