The Heroic Path: In Search of the Masculine Heart
God designed men to live with risk, adventure, and danger.

But today's man has no rites of passage, no elders, no map to manhood. He may physically be an adult, but still wonders, "Am I a man?"

When John Sowers twin daughters were born, he felt exposed, thinking manhood was out of reach. He needed direction. Following in the steps of ordinary men and the heroes of history, legend and myth, he uncovered a new and ancient road.

Walk with John on his personal quest to discover the "wild masculine" and to become all that God intended men to be. From a thrilling brush with Kodiak bears in Alaska, to a war hero who rescued his comrades in the Valley of Death, from mythic heroes of Tolkien, to the footsteps of the One, True Myth - as Jesus walked from village into the wilderness, and back again.

Stunningly written, this revolutionary book calls older men out of complacency and younger men out of confusion. It calls all men into the greater Story - into a life of sacrificial love, holy defiance, and clear purpose.
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The Heroic Path: In Search of the Masculine Heart
God designed men to live with risk, adventure, and danger.

But today's man has no rites of passage, no elders, no map to manhood. He may physically be an adult, but still wonders, "Am I a man?"

When John Sowers twin daughters were born, he felt exposed, thinking manhood was out of reach. He needed direction. Following in the steps of ordinary men and the heroes of history, legend and myth, he uncovered a new and ancient road.

Walk with John on his personal quest to discover the "wild masculine" and to become all that God intended men to be. From a thrilling brush with Kodiak bears in Alaska, to a war hero who rescued his comrades in the Valley of Death, from mythic heroes of Tolkien, to the footsteps of the One, True Myth - as Jesus walked from village into the wilderness, and back again.

Stunningly written, this revolutionary book calls older men out of complacency and younger men out of confusion. It calls all men into the greater Story - into a life of sacrificial love, holy defiance, and clear purpose.
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The Heroic Path: In Search of the Masculine Heart

The Heroic Path: In Search of the Masculine Heart

The Heroic Path: In Search of the Masculine Heart

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Overview

God designed men to live with risk, adventure, and danger.

But today's man has no rites of passage, no elders, no map to manhood. He may physically be an adult, but still wonders, "Am I a man?"

When John Sowers twin daughters were born, he felt exposed, thinking manhood was out of reach. He needed direction. Following in the steps of ordinary men and the heroes of history, legend and myth, he uncovered a new and ancient road.

Walk with John on his personal quest to discover the "wild masculine" and to become all that God intended men to be. From a thrilling brush with Kodiak bears in Alaska, to a war hero who rescued his comrades in the Valley of Death, from mythic heroes of Tolkien, to the footsteps of the One, True Myth - as Jesus walked from village into the wilderness, and back again.

Stunningly written, this revolutionary book calls older men out of complacency and younger men out of confusion. It calls all men into the greater Story - into a life of sacrificial love, holy defiance, and clear purpose.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781455580415
Publisher: FaithWords
Publication date: 05/13/2014
Sold by: Hachette Digital, Inc.
Format: eBook
Pages: 224
Sales rank: 149,514
File size: 550 KB

About the Author

John Sowers is the president of The Mentoring Project, a movement rewriting the fatherless story -- 25 million youth growing up without dad -- through mentoring. John received his master of divinity from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, and then graduated with his doctorate from Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary. His dissertation was published under the name Fatherless Generation, Redeeming the Story (Zondervan, 2010). John and his wife, Kari, live in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

Table of Contents

Foreword Bob Goff xi

Chapter 1 The Murdock Files 1

Chapter 2 Man Guides 15

Chapter 3 The Road Goes Ever On 29

Chapter 4 Woman as Salvation 45

Chapter 5 The Wild Masculine 67

Chapter 6 The Mythic Path 85

Chapter 7 Movimentio Es Vida 105

Chapter 8 Into the Red Earth 121

Chapter 9 The River 137

Chapter 10 The Resistance 151

Chapter 11 A Living Flame 165

Chapter 12 There and Back Again 183

Acknowledgments 199

Notes 201

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