Auntie Leila I have a question about books or recommended reading for my husband. Specifically in relation to what you said above "The path to freedom from its toxicity (for women as well as for men, each according to the nature given by God)". The key phrase there being "each according to the nature given by God". I have spent many years reading about our God given nature as women and my husband is recently becoming interested/starting to see that much of the way we were raised, and much of what the culture taught us, is disordered. He is asking me for reading material and all I can seem to do is blather about papal encyclicals and books written specifically for women and wave my arms around rather incoherently. I think what he wants is something written more for men, or at least speaking to the differences between men and women and what true masculinity might look like. Also, he is trying to understand women (i.e. his wife) better and get a better picture of how our rightly ordered roles/relationship ought to be. I hope that makes sense! I would like to be able to point him to something that he could read to get a sort of overview of the differences and complementarity of men and women.
It's a good question! I would really recommend Pius XI's Casti Connubii (and my book God Has No Grandchildren, a reading of it). Yes, it's an encyclical :)
I have to think about it, though, to come up with other titles.
There are books and movies that *show* (rather than explicate) the complementarity. I have a little list of them. Maybe I should do a post about it!
Thank you! I actually handed him your book, God Has No Grandchildren, last night. I also tried to explain about fairy tales/good fiction and how they show this, but it is so difficult to explain. A post about it would be wonderful, as well as further reading! We have read Three to Get Married as well. I think he really is looking for something speaking specifically to men.
Auntie Leila I have a question about books or recommended reading for my husband. Specifically in relation to what you said above "The path to freedom from its toxicity (for women as well as for men, each according to the nature given by God)". The key phrase there being "each according to the nature given by God". I have spent many years reading about our God given nature as women and my husband is recently becoming interested/starting to see that much of the way we were raised, and much of what the culture taught us, is disordered. He is asking me for reading material and all I can seem to do is blather about papal encyclicals and books written specifically for women and wave my arms around rather incoherently. I think what he wants is something written more for men, or at least speaking to the differences between men and women and what true masculinity might look like. Also, he is trying to understand women (i.e. his wife) better and get a better picture of how our rightly ordered roles/relationship ought to be. I hope that makes sense! I would like to be able to point him to something that he could read to get a sort of overview of the differences and complementarity of men and women.
It's a good question! I would really recommend Pius XI's Casti Connubii (and my book God Has No Grandchildren, a reading of it). Yes, it's an encyclical :)
I have to think about it, though, to come up with other titles.
There are books and movies that *show* (rather than explicate) the complementarity. I have a little list of them. Maybe I should do a post about it!
Thank you! I actually handed him your book, God Has No Grandchildren, last night. I also tried to explain about fairy tales/good fiction and how they show this, but it is so difficult to explain. A post about it would be wonderful, as well as further reading! We have read Three to Get Married as well. I think he really is looking for something speaking specifically to men.
I know... it would be good! Do you think he specifically wants non-fiction?
Yes, I think so.