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Image: Gage Skidmore via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>

One of the hardest topics for evangelicals to biblically, carefully, thoughtfully, and lovingly address is gender roles. Almost without fail, we muck things up, confusing gender for sex, cultural values for biblical values, and violence for selflessness. In Issue 3 of the\u00a0Christ and Pop Culture Magazine<\/a><\/em>, Benjamin Bartlett will offer an in depth look at \u201cmanliness\u201d and the church. But something happened this week that gave me pause and reminded me why we need to have this conversation.<\/p>\n

Noted author and increasingly influential evangelical figure Eric Metaxas has just released a new book chronicling the lives of seven famous, heroic men, called\u00a0Seven Men<\/em>. He was interviewed at National Review Online<\/em><\/a> about this new book and made some unsettling statements about what it means to be a man, as a Christian.<\/p>\n

It could be that in his book Metaxas clarifies and defines and qualifies these statements. But as a published interview which would be read by many people who will never read his book, Metaxas is responsible for the statements he makes. Nothing Metaxas says is particularly out of the ordinary for the way we evangelicals discuss gender roles, but that\u2019s why they stood out to me. Metaxas\u2019s statements reflect, I think, a significant segment of evangelicalism. And if we look closely at his comments, they are sweeping, unsupported, and dangerous.<\/p>\n

Metaxas begins:<\/p>\n

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We have a crisis of manhood in our culture. We\u2019re afraid to talk about what it means to be a man, so I wanted to talk about it and show the lives of seven truly great men.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

No evidence is given to support the assertion that we are in a \u201ccrisis of manhood in our culture,\u201d because Metaxas relies on popular images of limp-wristed hipsters in tight jeans and twenty-somethings playing CoD: 4<\/em> in their parents\u2019 garage. If you buy into that narrative about the \u201cyounger generation,\u201d then you\u2019re likely to skim right past Metaxas\u2019s claim, head-nodding the whole way. But let\u2019s not do that.<\/p>\n

This young man is undoubtedly a part of this crisis of manhood.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

What exactly is this \u201ccrisis of manhood\u201d? What has caused it? What defines it? Who is affected by it? Without acknowledging and addressing these basic questions, any attempt to solve this \u201ccrisis\u201d is pretty misguided.<\/p>\n

Even more fundamental: Is this a crisis of manhood or some other crisis? Narcissism, listlessness, irresponsibility\u2014are these trends gender specific or is it that we\u2019ve decided a priori<\/em> that laziness is a problem with men, but not women, who are really designed for relaxed labor anyway?<\/p>\n

I suspect that really what we are seeing as evidence of a \u201closs of manhood\u201d is really a malaise of consumerism, unrestrained individualism, narcissism, and rampant technological changes. And while the particular ways these problems materialize may tend to be gender specific, they are not at the core gender problems.<\/p>\n

Regardless, what\u2019s important to see here is that Eric Metaxas\u2019s claims are undefined and rest entirely on prior views about the younger generation.<\/p>\n

Metaxas continues:<\/p>\n

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[S]omewhere along the line in the last 40 years we lost our idea of what a man is. Every parent knows that a young man needs to know what it means to be a man \u2014 and that he needs and wants heroes. But in about the same way that we\u2019ve shrunk from saying what a man is, we\u2019ve denigrated the idea of heroes in general. Deep down, all men want to live heroic lives. And unless I missed something, playing video games isn\u2019t all that heroic.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

There\u2019s a lot to unpack here, but I just want to focus on Metaxas\u2019s shoddy use of language and how it mucks up any serious discussion of gender.<\/p>\n

What exactly has changed in the past 40 years? Are men less \u201cmasculine\u201d? How do you know? Are there more boys wearing effeminate clothes? The 1960s say otherwise. Are men less \u201cchivalrous\u201d? By what standard? How do you know?<\/p>\n

Generalizations about society-wide shifts in gender-identity and behavior really require thorough and careful research. Otherwise, all that we are left with are our presuppositions about changing gender roles\u2014ones that have been formed by our rather incomplete personal experiences. But it\u2019s not merely these generalizations which I find troubling, it\u2019s also his flippant use of terms like \u201cheroic.\u201d<\/p>\n

Do \u201call men want to live heroic lives\u201d? Yes, I suppose they do, if we define \u201cheroic\u201d in certain ways. All men want to live lives of significance and purpose and greatness and sacrifice, but don\u2019t women? Really, who doesn\u2019t want to live a \u201cheroic\u201d life? I know my daughter does.<\/p>\n

My daughter, airbending.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Her favorite show right now is Avatar: The Last Airbender,<\/em> and when she inevitably asks me to play Avatar with her, I get to be Sokka; she\u2019s the heroic Aang. She makes a pretty fine airbender, as you can tell from the snapshots.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not trying to argue that my little girl\u2019s desire to be the hero is normative for all little girls, but it is worth noting that boys aren\u2019t the only ones who want to be a hero deep down.<\/p>\n

But let\u2019s take another step back from heroism altogether; is it good to encourage your young boys (or girls) to be a hero? Is that natural, deep, basic desire to be the protagonist in the story of your life admirable? Does it lead to Christian virtues?<\/p>\n

In my experience as a boy (and even now, as oft-day-dreamer adult), the desire to be a hero almost always manifested as a desire to attain my existential justification through personal greatness. It was an alternate salvation\u2014a salvation through being a heroic savior. If I could do something heroic, even if it cost me everything, then I would know that I mattered. I was worth something. My existence would be assured, and this assurance would be verified by those around me.<\/p>\n

I still want to live a heroic life. But I don\u2019t think I should. I think I should want to live quietly, to do all that I do unto God and for my neighbor, and to do all this without believing that through my quiet suffering I am redeeming myself.<\/p>\n

Maybe the desire to live a \u201cheroic life\u201d can be virtuous, but even if that is the case, it is far from self-evident, and so Metaxas\u2019s casual use of the term is troubling.<\/p>\n

Metaxas\u2019s conclusion about the heroic life is that men have exchanged real heroism for playing videogames, which is not heroic. This comment is a non sequitur\u2014it does not follow from the claim that many men play videogames that they do not desire and actively pursue a heroic life. Again, Metaxas is being sloppy with his language and appealing to this popular cultural image of the adult man wasting his life playing videogames. Mark Driscoll would be proud of Metaxas\u2019s choice here. This generalization doesn\u2019t stand up to much scrutiny.<\/p>\n

Why videogames? Why not point out that watching football isn\u2019t heroic? Or working on cars? Or Tweeting? Or any other of the myriad ways people waste time in the 21st century?<\/p>\n

How many men devote all the heroic energy to saving the princess in the castle rather than the princess in their real life? Who knows. What matters here is that to a certain readership, \u201cvideogames\u201d are a symbol of all that is wrong with the younger generation.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s look at one more answer from Metaxas. Lopez asks him about the three men who sacrificed themselves during the Aurora shooting to save their girlfriends:<\/p>\n

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Of course, this is what men are supposed to do. It\u2019s what I\u2019d want a man to do if he was with my daughter or my mother or my wife, and it\u2019s certainly what I would expect myself to do. Men express their love this way. It\u2019s how God made us. Of course, women typically don\u2019t jump in front of their boyfriends to shield them from bullets, because that\u2019s not how God made women to express their love. But we have to wonder: Why did God make men that way? Why would we instinctively want to protect others, even if it means dying ourselves? What\u2019s that about?<\/p>\n

That\u2019s what this book is all about. Men and women are different. God created us different. What is God\u2019s idea of a man and why aren\u2019t we talking about that? I\u2019d suggest that the three men who gave their lives to save their girlfriends give us a picture of God\u2019s idea of a man. It\u2019s heroic, and it\u2019s beautiful and moving and we need to celebrate it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Metaxas is right, of course. God did make men to be willing to jump in front of their loved one\u2019s to save them, but self-sacrifice for our neighbor is not a gender-specific role. Note the way Metaxas genders sacrifice:<\/p>\n

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Why did God make men that way? Why would we instinctively want to protect others, even if it means dying ourselves? . . . I\u2019d suggest that the three men who gave their lives to save their girlfriends give us a picture of God\u2019s idea of a man. It\u2019s heroic, and it\u2019s beautiful and moving and we need to celebrate it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

God certainly made men that way, but the model of sacrifice given by Christ does not have implications for men only. All Christians, regardless of gender, are called to lay down their lives for their neighbors (see 1 John 3:16) and to defend the weak and defenseless. All of us are called to die to self, figuratively and when necessary, literally. Certainly Metaxas is right that we ought to celebrate that heroic, beautiful, and moving sacrifice of these three men, but the picture God gives of sacrifice is not strictly\u00a0gendered masculine. If there is any doubt of this, see childbirth, particularly childbirth prior to the 20th century and still today in impoverished countries, where this most basic act of life-giving often leads to the death of the mother.<\/p>\n

Gender is complicated. I don\u2019t get it. I don\u2019t know if there is an Ideal Godly Masculinity that I should be aspiring to. But I do know that most of the time, when someone claims that they Know What Biblical Manhood looks like, they don\u2019t. They make claims that are indefensible. They use terms loosely. They draw upon cultural images of masculinity and femininity without considering their roots and presumptions.<\/p>\n

I believe that our bodies help to define us, and gender is a part of that definition. I don\u2019t believe in limitless individual freedom for self-definition. We are bodily, and we are defined bodily. But we need to be careful, particularly those who are treated as an authority in evangelicalism, to not perpetuate extra-biblical conceptions of gender.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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