He either becomes a passive, weak man – strength sundered – or he becomes a violent, driven man – strength unglued. This can be seen in two primary ways (both for men and women), “When a man goes bad, as every man has in some way gone bad after the Fall, what is most deeply marred is his strength. They become haunted by questions and doubts concerning their beauty and they become wounded. The problem comes when the woman (or man) seeks to find these things in places other than God, when validation is sought from created things rather than the creator. This image is reflected in how “every woman in her heart of hearts longs for three things: to be romanced, to play an irreplaceable role in a great adventure, and to unveil beauty.” It is an image of God being reflected as is only done through the feminine nature, as the authors state: “And she, too, bears the image of God, but in a way that only the feminine can speak.”
With his wife as co-author the two set out to ‘unveil the mystery of a woman’s soul’.Īs with man, woman is made in a certain image, and that image is struggling to be seen. In Wild at Heart the question of man’s soul, his design and his relation to God is analyzed in Captivating the question is turned towards woman.
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