Non-toxic masculinity Recovering healthy male sexuality
Book - 2023
""Boys will be boys" and purity culture sell the same excuses with a different spin. Can we break the toxic cycle and recover a healthy identity for men? Confronting harmful teaching from the American church that has distorted desire, sex, relationships, and responsibility, Zachary Wagner offers a renewed vision for Christian male sexuality"--
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Downers Grove, Illinois :
IVP, an imprint of InterVarsity Press
[2023]
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Physical Description
- 212 pages ; 22 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN
- 9781514005026
- Preface
- Introduction: Wake Up, Guys
- Part I. Purity Culture and the Roots of Toxic Masculinity
- 1. What Is "Purity Culture"?
- A Brief Generational History
- 2. The "Great Sex" Prosperity Gospel
- And Other Lies of the Purity Movement
- 3. The Dehumanization of Men
- What Is Toxic Masculinity and Where Do We See It in the Church?
- 4. The Dehumanization of Women
- How Women Are Harmed by Fractured Masculinity
- Part II. A Renewed Vision of Male Sexuality
- 5. Victims of Our Own Desire?
- Shame and the Shadow of Male Sexuality
- 6. The Bible Says So
- Correcting Misconceptions About the Bible and Male Sexuality
- 7. The True Man
- Jesus and the Redemption of the Male Body
- Part III. Growing Up, Becoming a Man
- 8. Before You Knew You Were Sexual
- Boyhood and the Formation of Male Sexuality
- 9. From Fight to Formation
- Refraining Adolescence and Sexual Temptation
- 10. You Say Goodbye, I Say Hello
- Dating, Romance, and Extended Singleness
- 11. Act Like an Adult
- Maturing the Church's Culture of Masculine Sexuality
- 12. The Worst Sex You've Ever Had
- Honeymoon Hype and the Idolization of Marriage
- 13. Learning to Love
- Reflections on Marital Sex
- 14. Fatherhood
- The Chief End of Male Sexuality
- 15. Death and Resurrection
- The Beauty of Redeemed Masculinity
- Acknowledgments
- Notes