Four Pillars of a Man's Heart : Bringing Strength Into Balance

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Summary: Learn to be a Man's Man
Review: The author challenges you in the four areas that make up the model man. To become a better man effects both the culture outside the home and especially in the home. In a world of confusion, the author offers simple biblical principals to balance these four pillars of a man's heart.

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Summary: Must read for every man who wants to be accountable.
Review: This book has a fantastic opening story of a strong and manly Vietnam Green Beret struggling with a life decision. Once you read that you are hooked. The basic concepts of this book are so easy to understand that you could easily gloss over their importance. Why do we men naturally feel like a king(provider), a warrior(protector), a mentor(teacher) and a friend(lover)? The book discusses how these critical pillars in our lives are shaped and how they can become out of alignment. When they're not in alignment then the most meaningful parts of our lives, which the pillars are supporting, start to fall, such as marriages, families, churches, communities, and our nation. Biblically based, this is a great book to use for Men's Groups. We used the book as a format for a Men's Retreat and it worked wonderfully.

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Summary: Outstanding Wisdom for Men
Review: This book was recommended by a friend and it turned out to be the best men's book I have ever read, organizing a man's life into the four roles he fills. Mr Weber also does a great job in
showing what happens when those pillars become unbalanced.
Recommended for all men!

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Summary: Learn to be the man God designed you to be !
Review: This is one of the greatest books that any male could ever read. This book is full of easy to understand explanations to being the man we are designed to be. Mr. Weber has changed my life and that of my family forever. This book should be required reading for all males of all ages. This is a spiritual awakening that only comes from truths. I highly recommend this book, and will be sharing it with all those that are looking for a breath of fresh air in this sometimes stagnant world we live in.

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Summary: A must read for any man especially fathers, come as you are!
Review: Very few books make me angry. With "The Four Pillars of a Man's Heart", Stu Weber has done just that. Mr. Weber has taken very intelligent, deep work by Robert Moore and Douglas Gillette (after the ground-breaking work of Carl Jung) and co-opted it for his own purposes, with almost no recognition of its source. He makes one believe in this book that the work is largely his own when, in fact, there is nothing new except the fundamentalist lens he is using to distort the previous works. He even, laughably, changes Moore and Gillette's Magician archetype to his own Mentor and their Lover archetype to Friend, no doubt because his fundamentalist audience would take offense to the earlier labels. While I agree with the idea of the four quarters of the male psyche (a concept that has helped me immensely the last 5 years in my own journey), he shouldn't water them down and twist them to his own designs. Using these classic concepts to continue the oppression of women and perpetrate hatred toward homosexuals is unforgivable. If any man has read this book and it has piqued his interest, please do yourself a favor and read "King, Warrior, Magician, Lover" by Robert Moore and Douglas Gillette. This is the REAL place to start on the journey of becoming a man. For an honest Christian take on this subject, I highly recommend Richard Rohr's "Wild Man's Journey". Even Robert Bly's "Iron John" is a better bet than this drivel. Don't waste your time.

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Summary: Read the real thing elsewhere
Review: Very few books make me angry. With "The Four Pillars of a Man's Heart", Stu Weber has done just that. Mr. Weber has taken very intelligent, deep work by Robert Moore and Douglas Gillette (after the ground-breaking work of Carl Jung) and co-opted it for his own purposes, with almost no recognition of its source. He makes one believe in this book that the work is largely his own when, in fact, there is nothing new except the fundamentalist lens he is using to distort the previous works. He even, laughably, changes Moore and Gillette's Magician archetype to his own Mentor and their Lover archetype to Friend, no doubt because his fundamentalist audience would take offense to the earlier labels. While I agree with the idea of the four quarters of the male psyche (a concept that has helped me immensely the last 5 years in my own journey), he shouldn't water them down and twist them to his own designs. Using these classic concepts to continue the oppression of women and perpetrate hatred toward homosexuals is unforgivable. If any man has read this book and it has piqued his interest, please do yourself a favor and read "King, Warrior, Magician, Lover" by Robert Moore and Douglas Gillette. This is the REAL place to start on the journey of becoming a man. For an honest Christian take on this subject, I highly recommend Richard Rohr's "Wild Man's Journey". Even Robert Bly's "Iron John" is a better bet than this drivel. Don't waste your time.

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Summary: Very good study material
Review: We took 40 high school boys through this book for a whole academic year for mens' small group while our girls went through Kay Arthur's Someday Marriage Without Regreats. Not only was it a very well balanced study for the year, the book itself (Four Pillars) proved to be well balanced in its approach to manhood, fatherhood, husbandhood, friendship and more. A great challenge for young men aspiring to be GREAT men.
JW

Rating:
Summary: Very good study material
Review: We took 40 high school boys through this book for a whole academic year for mens' small group while our girls went through Kay Arthur's Someday Marriage Without Regreats. Not only was it a very well balanced study for the year, the book itself (Four Pillars) proved to be well balanced in its approach to manhood, fatherhood, husbandhood, friendship and more. A great challenge for young men aspiring to be GREAT men.
JW

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Summary: Great resource for men's ministry
Review: Well written and well researched book on what the fundamental characteristics of a Christian man in today's society, with a solid Biblical basis. Lots of memorable stories and quotes. Good book to cover as an instructional series.

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Summary: Inpact reading for any man
Review: What a joy it was to read this fast paced informational, and motivational book. As the leader of a Christian Men's group, I am now beginning a group study of this book, as it is information that every man, Christian or not, should read, and talk about.