This is drivel dressed in very ragged Christian clothes.

Whilst the attacks on men in our culture are serious and many issues/questions identified in the book are valid, the answers are useless and could not be considered Bible based in the least. Our standard should be Christ. His Word our primary source for who we are meant to be as both men and women. Not the film Braveheart or William Wallace.

It cheapens who God is and completely misrepresents his sovereignty. There is no risk with God. He knows all things, if he didn't, or if one thing could fall outside of his control then we could not trust him, and maybe perhaps we should not trust him. But thankfully since he is all powerful sovereign creator of the universe who knows all and sees all and hears all, we can trust him.

There are so many things wrong with this book. Not least the fact that it makes a mockery of the wonderful godly man working long days at a job he hates out of love for his family and a desire to provide for them. Sacrificing himself, as christ did for the church, is the true mark of a Godly man.

Give me one kind man who will sacrifice himself for the good of others, over a million 'exciting' lion hunters who only want to serve themselves and make themselves happy.

Warto dowiedzieć się, ile potencjału na mężczyzna i do czego został stworzony.

John Eldridge is the perfect example of a person with hegemonic masculinity and toxic masculinity disorders. He is one who, “practices legitimizing men’s dominant position in society and justifying the subordination of the common male and female populations”.

We need counselors, authors, pastors and other men in leadership positions to be more vulnerable and stop trying to be so macho by, “reproducing archaic masculine attributes such as violence, dominance, aggression, and toughness”. By the way, it was the women who worked in the factories and ran this country when the men went to Europe to fight a war almost 75 years ago.

John Eldridge’s own life experience has made him believe that what he is saying is the “gospel“, but it’s far from it. Most of his examples came from movies and what he did quote from the Bible was mostly out of context.

Wild at Heart was a reminder of why conservative, right wing religious thinking should be obsolete in the 21st-century.

Blah, blah, blah, glad that experience is over with.

This book is extremely misogynistic.
Two chapters talk about emotional healing for men, the rest has extremely outdated and unfair views of feminity.

This book is based on so many overly simplified truths, that do not hold up in real life: "small girl never make up games, where a lot of people die..." To prove his point he adds: "- hockey isn´t invented by a girl, nor is boxing". Well, i am a girl- and i did play those games- most of my girlfriends did- and we loved it.
"i have yet to meet a woman who would marry one of those two types" (referring to Alfred and Samuel in "time of legends"). WHAT!? what women do you ask this- do they qualify to represent women in general?! - i disagree strongly based on my experience and the girlsfriends i talk to.

I agree with the fact that a lot of people (man and women) can feel the desire to seek the wild and adventures. I disagree in the distinguishing between the desire of a man to do so, compared to a woman.

In fairness i need to add that i did not finish the book, it made me angry, and i dont think it is based on any legitimate premises.

The book is so powerful that I had to put it down for a time after page 6 for, in those first few pages I knew precisely why I went to Sea and why I will go back...a reason which makes so much sense to me now and was clouded by confusion. It's funny to me now as I write this, I thought I had the reason I love taking off on an adventure figured out, but there was always something missing in my reasoning...this book helped me to solidify my thinking.

The author calls us out in our thinking as men and women. You can agree with him or not, but I guarantee the words and the way they are written will make you think about your life and how you are living it. None of us are perfect, certainly not me. All of us have been bored at some point in our lives, I have. I would be willing to bet that most of us have had the urge to get "out there" and face a Challenge or two, but something always keeps us back. We can rationalize so many things in life, but the author will challenge you to think deeply and honestly about your own life...if you can take it...facing your fears of what you might find. If you are up to the Challenge, then read the book. Otherwise, go slump on a comfy couch, watch some TV or play video games and let someone else have the adventures you dream about while you exist in self-imposed mediocrity.

I am giving this book 5 stars. Not because it is perfect...nothing humans create is perfect. I am not giving the book 5 stars because I agree with everything the author declares to be Truth. I do not agree exactly with his interpretation of why humans do the negative things we do. He seems to want to not take responsibility for his own actions and blame all the "bad" stuff on a Evil Force outside of himself...to me that is incredible weakness from a man who professes Strength. I am giving the book 5 stars for the same reason I give any book 5 stars. "Wild at Heart" created deep thinking within my Being on many levels. So much so, that I had to put it down and think. I took notes in the margins with my own thoughts and arguments. The book helped to solidify my own thinking about God, Christianity, why I went to Sea, who I am as a Man, how I relate to women and why I still wish to be "out there" in the world on a continuous adventure...why I will go back to Sea alone, exploring the wonders of this planet(well, I will be taking my dog next time, so not completely alone. :))

I wish every man and woman would read this book. No, we are not all the same on the surface...but deep within our Souls...we all come from the same Source...and it is there that we are the same...Love.

I want to like this book. Eldredge makes a compelling case for what makes men “manly”, and I personally resonate with a lot of it. But, I cannot faithfully recommend this to all of the men I disciple; it is narrow-minded and lacks credibility. Simply, I do not believe there is enough evidence from Scripture given to back up his claims.

Really challenging/thought provoking ideas about manhood. The first third was particularly evocative for me.

A great read for men to embrace biblical manhood and for women to realize just how wild men want/should be. WaH questions why our Christian society sets the standard of Biblical manhood with Mr. Rogers rather than William Wallace (Braveheart). WaH pushes the envelope for men to embrace the biblical role of being men on fire for God and living on the edge. Most women probably won't like this book (or for their man to read it), and even some men may think it is too radical. So, maybe it is time to put down the book and go out and do a little hunting, football, and sky-diving! ar ar ar! Pass the peanuts, the Redskins are on.

Which girl wouldn't grab a book with the title 'Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul'?. Men say they don't understand women,well, we don't understand you too! So, out of curiosity, I grabbed this book when I was a young twenty something year old. I don't know what prompted me to read it, or may I do and I just don't want to tell you.

I read it alongside 'Bringing up boys' and as an aunt to several boys, these two books taught me to just let boys be boys. When they decide to fight, I just watch them and I will only intervene when there is need. It taught me to reduce the number of 'NOs' I use on boys because as John Eldredge says, 'God designed men to be dangerous.' they are just wild and as a woman, you need to relax and let them be.

John Says, "Adventure, with all its requisite danger and wildness, is a deeply spiritual longing written into the soul of man. The masculine heart needs a place where nothing is prefabricated, modular, nonfat, zip lock, franchised, on-line, microwavable. Where there are no deadlines, cell phones, or committee meetings. Where there is room for the soul."

Here are some few points I noted while reading this book that try to explain how man is created in Gods image. Of course you have to read it to understand where all this is coming from.

1. There is something fierce in the heart of every man.

2. There is something wild in the heart of every man.

3. There is something passionate in the heart of every man.

Okay, I will have to read it again now that I am grown to come up with more points.

Have you ever seen a boy try to climb a wall and wondered what's wrong with him? Well, there is nothing. :D

Ok…wow! So many thoughts about this book. Buckle up for a long review. In the shortest summary ever, I really liked it and walked away feeling like I learned a ton.

I didn’t give it five stars, and the reason why is pretty simple and doesn’t have much to do with the book’s controversy (which is very apparent in goodreads reviews

I believe there are some truthful, biblical teachings in this book. But they are coincidental and complementary, and do not contribute to the author's main points on the best masculine life: an adventure to live, a battle to fight, a beauty to rescue.
It is very possible to glean some truth here and there. But if the reader pays attention to everything being said, it is unscriptural, and ultimately not a true teaching that every male can or should apply. I did personally resonate with most of the author's "lifestyle" ideals, and I did feel that they might be true for me. But this certainly does not make them biblical prescriptions, which is precisely what Eldredge is claiming.
Eldredge begins his arguments with a limited understanding of how most men feel. This, in turn, is backed up by hand-picked passages from the Bible; that is not good hermeneutics.