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The Three Marks of Manhood

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2308

Author:

G.C. Dilsaver

No. Pages:

200

Binding:

Softcover

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The modern world's infatuation with “equality” informs our culture's presumptions about everything from politics to parenthood, from the definition of art to relations between the sexes. Radical egalitarianism has taken root even in the Church, leaving many Catholics ignorant (or disdainful) of the hierarchies found in our Tradition—particularly the patriarchal structure of the Christian family.

In The Three Marks of Manhood, author G.C. Dilsaver says that the time has come to re-discover Church teaching about patriarchy, and for Catholic men to take up their God-ordained role as priest, prophet, and king of their families. And he shows you how to do it, by embracing and wielding the three staffs of patriarchy: the Scepter of authority and self-discipline, the Crosier of spiritual stewardship, and the Cross of redemptive suffering.

This familial headship to which God calls Christian husbands and fathers is not one of brute dominance over wife and children: that's an old and false form of patriarchy, in which scriptural teaching on marriage—for instance, that a wife must be subject to her husband as to the Lord—was corrupted by prevailing pagan notions of male superiority. Instead, says Dilsaver, we must adopt a new and untainted kind of patriarchy in which the husband's authority is unequivocal, yet formed by humility and self-sacrificial love. Only then, he says, can men lead their families to become what God intended; only then can men be strong enough to resist the encroachment of secular culture—and in turn renew that culture with the gospel.

The Three Marks of Manhood is a bold book that challenges the world's preconceptions. It is also a wise book that offers sound counsel for both men and women. Read it and learn how to build a strong and lasting marriage, raise children to become faithful servants of God, and foster an authentic Catholic culture in your home.

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