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Man of the House (Hardcover)
C R Wiley; Foreword by Leon J Podles; Afterword by Allan C Carlson
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Man of the House (Paperback)
C R Wiley; Foreword by Leon J Podles; Afterword by Allan C Carlson
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Few books have explored in depth the lack of men in the churches.
Podles' book The Church Impotent: The Feminization of Christianity
was the first book-length attempt to examine this phenomenon. David
Murrow's Why Men Hate Going to Church was a popular presentation of
Podles' material. Marta Trzebiatowska's and Steve Bruce's short Why
Are Women More Religious than Men? confines itself almost entirely
to modern British and American examples. Losing the Good Portion:
Why Men Are Alienated from Christianity explores the causes and
consequences of the almost millennium-old disparity between the
participation of lay men and lay women in the churches of Western
Christianity. Podles considers both the anecdotal and statistical
evidence for the lack of men: sermons, church rolls, censuses, and
sociological analyses. Podles sees the intellectual roots of lack
of men in the Aristotelian understanding of male and female as
active and passive, an understanding which has formed all
discussion of masculinity and femininity, from Aquinas through
Schleiermacher, Barth, and Hans Urs von Balthasar, all of whom saw
femininity as more compatible with Christianity than masculinity.
Men, according to anthropologists and psychologists, go through a
difficult process to attain masculinity and therefore distance
themselves from threats to that masculine identity, including
Christianity. Men suspected the clergy was effeminate and sexually
irregular. Historians of violence have examined the decline in
violence in Europe and the civilizing role of the clergy, a role
which further alienated men and led to violent anticlericalism
Podles examines the presentation of Jesus' masculinity in Scripture
and images of Jesus' masculinity in art, the role of thumos in
spirituality, and the various movements that have helped keep men
connected to the churches. He makes suggestions for possible
outreach to men.
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