Hmmmm....I guess that comment could use some thought.
Please feel free to recommend your own favorites, but I'm hoping that you will also tell us the reason(s) why you find a particular work to be exceptional. .
The majority of books above have in common a theme: how we interact with institutions.
If mankind has been determined to do something well, it is the easy eagerness of his submission of his heart to an institution out there (pick a card, any card, but just one), and its concommiment career and loyalty requirements. But a certain institution not created by mankind, marriage, gets too little press.
Reforming Marriage is a book I highly recommend for any Christian husband/wife team who feel that the husband part of that team needs some work. In short, it is not an issue of returning lost masculinity to men, but the rebuilding of the meat of the word 'husband', and its actual manifestations in real life. Of course, if the 'Fatherhood' of God is too offensive to the reader, they'll find the words upon their minds to be intolerable.
Federal Husband builds on the former book, and directs the reader to some concrete instutional realities of Husbandry.
For example, Jealously is not only good, properly applied ... it is an essential feature of a 'right' marriage.
But it is not cool to speak of Jealously these days in a positive sense. In any event, the marriage institution is the primary institution which governed the growth of our consititutional thinking (though most would laugh at that assertion).
Today, ignoring the assult upon this institution (especially via the pathway of neglecting to love your own wife, and respecting your own husband) seems to be the number one tactic among all current constitutional nullification tactics. There really is no 'assult' we are supposed to believe. And it is easy to believe this ......really .... given how few of us can honestly report the acquisition of that 'learning foundation'.
Psalm 11:3 should be heeded, in addition to the books above....
Sadly true, and sadder still it is far too often discussed or referred to in a negative or dismissive manner; it's adherents characterized as lowbrow oafs who are clinging to an outdated and irrelevant social construct.
Of course, if the 'Fatherhood' of God is too offensive to the reader, they'll find the words upon their minds to be intolerable
Hopefully there won't be too many FReepers with such a perspective.
But it is not cool to speak of Jealously these days in a positive sense.
It is similarly uncool to speak of honor and virtue unless it's in a snide or deprecating manner.
the marriage institution is the primary institution which governed the growth of our consititutional thinking (though most would laugh at that assertion)
Not me :-)
There really is no 'assult' we are supposed to believe
Yes, those of us who dare to suggest that Western culture and essential foundations of Society are under assault are derided as inarticulate cement-heads who simply don't understand the Great Ideas of Socialist Deconstruction
Both books seem to be 'essential reading' .....thanks very much for your excellent suggestions and thoughtful post :-)