Spirituality of Men : Sixteen Christians Write about Their Faith

by Culbertson, Philip L.

• ISBN13: 9780800634476
• ISBN10: 0800634470
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-01-01
• Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Pub

Summary

Dying to old roles and rising again

Sixteen men attempt to lay out what it means to be an adult male Christian. The authors move beyond old stereotypes of manliness and Christian identity to chart new identities, roles, and attitudes. They include men who are deeply in the Christian church and men barely in the church, straight and gay men, white men and African Americans, Protestant and Catholic, younger and older.

Table of Contents

Contributors	vii
Preface	xi
Part One: Spirituality
Don't Just Do Something, Sit There: Spiritual Practice and Men's Wholeness	3	(15)
Mark Muesse
African Male Spirituality	18	(19)
Michael Battle
Part Two: Mental Health
The Psychosocial Roots of Sin and Possibilities for Healing	37	(15)
Stephen Boyd
Responsible Forgiveness within a Relational Church Community	52	(14)
David J. Livingston
Don Quixote as Moral Narcissist: Implications for Mid-Career Male Ministers	66	(27)
Donald Capps
Discovering Creative Depth Within	93	(20)
Mike Bathum
Part Three: Relationships
Masculinity, Competitive Violence, and Christian Theology	113	(19)
James Newton Poling
Allies in the Sexual Healing Journey: Reflections for Partners of Women Who Were Sexually Abused as Children	132	(13)
Merle Longwood
Setting the Captives Free: Same-Sex Domestic Violence and the Justice-Loving Church	145	(20)
Marvin Ellison
Part Four: The Physical Body
Designing Men: Reading Male Bodies as Texts	165	(14)
Philip L. Culbertson
Disabled Bodies, Healing Bodies, Christ's Body	179	(13)
Brett Webb-Mitchell
Can Men Learn to Float? Spirituality and Health Crises	192	(8)
Jerrald Townsend
Robert Bennett
The Integration of Sexuality and Spirituality: Gay Sexual Prophets within the UFMCC	200	(21)
Robert E. Goss
Part Five: Community
``The Things We Do!'' Nurturing the Authority of Men in Ministry	221	(23)
Philip L. Culbertson
Men's Faith: The Effects of Pre- and Post-Retirement Masculinities	244	(13)
Ed Thompson
Xodus to the Promised Man: Revising our Anthropodicy	257	(13)
Lee H. Butler Jr.
Afterword	270	(7)
Author Index	277