Wild at Heart is clearly a dangerous book being passed off as being Biblically Christian, yet the dissenting voices are few.
This writer is being too tough on John. He's trying to counteract the wimpifying, metrosexualizing of the modern American male.
His ideas are ideas worth considering. People really are afraid of the stallion that God has created, and their first impulse is to geld that wildness.
The bottom line is this: Biblical men were unabashed warriors. Eldredge is attempting to define that. Cut him some slack as he takes initial forays into a subject sorely needing a hearing in our culture.
Or we can all go buy pink and learn disco dancing and how to hold our pinky when we drink tea. Even the Scarlet Pimpernel knew that that was no real man.
Those bull mousses are really what kill my diet, too! And what does this say about the writer's level of education?
But seriously, I've read all John Eldredge's books, and all I see here is a difference of opinion. This writer doesn't imagine the "personality," as it were, of God, in the same way Eldredge does. Fine. God is bigger than any of our understandings of Him.
I have read Elledge's book, Wild at Heart. Read more like Ted Nugent than the Apostle Paul.
Based on this critique the book sounds rather...
...infantile.
Presuming themselves to be wise, they have become fools.