Captivating: Unveiling the Mystery of a Woman’s Soul
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- ISBN13: 9781589268883
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Bestselling leader John Eldredge and his wife and co-leader, Stasi, unveil the beauty and mystery of the feminine soul by showing readers the three core desires of every woman’s heart. Every small girl has dreams of being swept up into a fantastic adventure, of being the gorgeous princess. Sadly, when women grow up, they are regularly swept up into a life filled merely with duty and demands. Many Christian women are tired, struggling under the weight of the pressure to be a “excellent servant,” a nurturing caregiver, or a capable home manager. What Wild at Heart did for men, Captivating can do for women. This groundbreaking book shows readers the glorious design of women before the fall, describes how the feminine heart can be restored, and casts a vision for the power, freedom, and beauty of a woman unrestricted to be all she was meant to be. By revealing the core desires every woman shares—to be romanced, to play an irreplaceable role in a grand adventure, and to unveil beauty— John and Stasi Eldredge invite women to recover their feminine hearts, made in the image of an intimate and passionate God. Further, they encourage men to learn the secret of a woman’s soul and to delight in the beauty and might women were made to offer.
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This book is certainly written from a very, very Christian perspective. Some people may wish to really read some excerpts from this book and certainly read the prayer in the back before deciding to buy it. If you like what you read…buy it…if not…keep looking. This book will appeal to a certain audience. If you are not in that audience there are penalty of additional books out there that can help men and women in balancing the feminine and masculine aspects of their own respective beings. For persons who choose not to buy this book but are still looking for something from a Christian base, I would suggest something by Cloud and Townsend. If you want something Spiritual with a respective definition of the male and female roll, the Hindus may have some very excellent holistically mentally based relationship books.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
This book is part of a church wide study group of 200 women. I was too late to sign up for this session so will take the next opportunity in the first of 2006. Persons I know who are paticipating, like the group sessions better than the book. They are single and unattached, if that makes a difference.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
are things that you would better spend your hard earned cash on than this insipid book. “oohhh…. I’ma woman! All I wants is to be purty and have my knight in bright armor! Who needs to vote?!?!” This is why I despise most christian women.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
When the Wild At Heart craze ongoing a few years ago at my university, my guy friends ongoing holding tiny groups centering on this self-proclaimed message of their manhood. I selected up the book to see what all of the fuss was about. I quickly concluded that it was nothing more than a mix of feel-excellent psychology and a sexist reading of Scripture (a very poorly supported one, at that). Captivating is just as horrible.
For starters, the main premise of the book is very inaccurate– every woman’s heart longs for three things: to be romanced, to have an irreplaceable role in a fantastic adventure, and beauty to unveil.
Sadly, there are probably millions of young Christian women who will read this message and agree with it– young women who dream of fairy-tale marriages, strapping but strong Christian men to lead them and their children while taking a back-seat role in the “adventures” of life, women who judge that because a man’s desire is to win the “beauty,” they must adhere to this conjured-up theory that to be gorgeous is one of the three main longings of our heart. Sorry John and Stasi, but I don’t buy it. Not only do I feel a perfect lack of tie with this message, I also judge it is a harmful one to preach.
Do you want to the know the longings of my heart?
Why is it that a man’s main desire is to seek fantastic adventure while the woman “plays a role” in that male-dominated adventure? You are dead incorrect when you say that “every small girl dreams of being a princess.” I never once had that dream. I loved playing with toy guns, climbing trees, getting into fights with my older brothers, and playing every sport that was offered. In fleeting, I identify with the male version of “desire” more than with the female. Does that make me less feminine?
And this is not because I am in denial or have a mortal feminine injury. It is because I am a self-sufficient, self-confident and yes, gorgeous 22 year ancient woman. But beauty is not part of the equation. I rarely notice my beauty; in all honesty, I am annoyed and sometimes offended when it is pointed out to me by men. I do not long to be “romanced” and “fought for” and told that I am gorgeous. I fight my own battles, and that includes the battle in this society to overcome the sexist stereotypes that drive young women to feel insecure, needy, or “Feminist Nazis.” By the way, I am very offended by your referral to that axiom, as included in a letter from a reader. What does “Feminist Nazi” mean anyway? Its simply a buzzword used to perpetuate hatred towards women like me.
The right desires of my heart couldn’t be further from the thesis of this book. I long for adventure, for travel, for life’s romance– but this has nothing to do with the presence of a MAN in my life. The longings of my heart include fighting for social justice, improving the living conditions of women and children in this country and across the world, and rejecting the traditional female role outlined for me by my Christian background. If I can accomplish this, my heart’s desires will be truly fulfilled. My happiness is not contingent upon being romanced, won over, or privileged to merely “take a role” in the adventure of a man. Please girls, get some self-respect! I am lucky enough to have had two parents who pushed me to follow my own dreams as a replacement for of find a way to fit this masogonyst world. I refused to be the small princess crying out for help; I was the princess who establish her own way out of the tower, into battle and into victory. I hope and pray that there are girls out there who are courageous and intelligent, who will question the message of this book and seek out their own adventures, who will learn the unique longings of their own hearts as a replacement for of believing sexist lies poorly disguised as spiritual truth.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
If only every girl on the face of the globe knew this: knew that we guys want desperately to be your prince! Deep in our hearts we judge that the girl we like is truly a princess:’tis burned in hearts and minds from birth! We see you all as Cinderella; we see you all as Sleeping Beauty; we see you everyone of you as our darling princess. O will you let us play the role of prince, of the Knight in bright armour, and let our like pour out unto you, in many adventurous and romantic ways!
Moreover dear woman, may you read this book “Captivating”; may you read it with an open heart and mind: oh may you try and see OUR hearts in it too!(us men that is) who want very much to like you all, and like you all as right modern day Cinderellas. < :)
With much like,
Another ready prince
XOXOXOX
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5