When Poets Were Warriors: Retrieving a Biblical Vision of Masculinity

Almost every Christian man wants others to think of them as a “man’s man,” a “real man.” Yet, most of the time, these same men would be hard—pressed to provide a clear, compelling, and biblically rooted definition for what it means to be a man. Between the toxic masculinity and gender confusion of our day, the Christian church needs to retrieve a balanced vision of what it means to be a man.

Instead of allowing cultural stereotypes to form our vision of masculinity, we need to return to the...