His books are written to help men rediscover their masculinity in the image of God, but the have been popular with both men and women. It hosts boot camps and retreats for men and women. He is the founder of Ransomed Heart Ministries, which describes itself as part monastery, part military outpost, and part Red Cross unit for the soul. (Nov.John Eldredge is the best-selling author of Wild at Heart, The Sacred Romance, and a new book, Waking the Dead: The Glory of a Heart Fully Alive. He views the transition from one stage to another as a time when 'something in us needs to be dismantled and something needs to be healed,' a form of damage control that allows men to advance along Eldredge's 'map.' Eldredge insists that the church has not served its male population well and calls for greater insight into the masculine journey.

Eldredge describes typical behaviors that occur in each stage, and illustrates them with examples primarily from the Bible but also from secular biographies, popular films and legends. He begins with the observation that 'God is a God of process,' then identifies six stages through which men pass in their life journeys: boyhood, cowboy, warrior, lover, king and sage. How can the church empower its men to find that path of spiritual growth that will enable them to grow up into the image of God? Eldredge, founder and director of Ransomed Heart Ministries in Colorado Springs, Colo., attempts to answer this question in this helpful guide, a praxis-oriented follow-up volume to Wild at Heart

's monthly religion bestseller lists, Christian men have lost their way. According to Eldredge, whose book Wild at Heart

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