Salvific Manhood foregrounds the radical power of male intimacy and vulnerability in surveying each of James Baldwin’s six novels. Asserting that manhood and masculinity hold the potential for both tragedy and salvation, Ernest L. Gibson III highlights the complex and difficult emotional choices Baldwin’s men must make within their varied lives, relationships, and experiences. In Salvific Manhood, Gibson offers a new and compelling way to understand the hidden connections between Baldwin’s novels. Thematically daring and theoretically provocative, he presents a queering of salvation, a nuanced approach that views redemption through the lenses of gender and sexuality. Exploring how fraternal crises develop out of sociopolitical forces and conditions, Salvific Manhood theorizes a spatiality of manhood, where spaces in between men are erased through expressions of intimacy and love. Positioned at the intersections of literary criticism, queer studies, and male studies, Gibson deconstructs Baldwin’s wrestling with familial love, American identity, suicide, art, incarceration, and memory by magnifying the potent idea of salvific manhood. Ultimately, Salvific Manhood calls for an alternate reading of Baldwin’s novels, introducing new theories for understanding the intricacies of African American manhood and American identity, all within a space where the presence of tragedy can give way to the possibility of salvation.​

Salvific Manhood foregrounds the radical power of male intimacy and vulnerability in surveying each of James Baldwin’s six novels. Asserting that manhood and masculinity hold the potential for both tragedy and salvation, Ernest L. Gibson III highlights the complex and difficult emotional choices Baldwin’s men must make within their varied lives, relationships, and experiences. In Salvific Manhood, Gibson offers a new and compelling way to understand the hidden connections between Baldwin’s novels. Thematically daring and theoretically provocative, he presents a queering of salvation, a nuanced approach that views redemption through the lenses of gender and sexuality. Exploring how fraternal crises develop out of sociopolitical forces and conditions, Salvific Manhood theorizes a spatiality of manhood, where spaces in between men are erased through expressions of intimacy and love. Positioned at the intersections of literary criticism, queer studies, and male studies, Gibson deconstructs Baldwin’s wrestling with familial love, American identity, suicide, art, incarceration, and memory by magnifying the potent idea of salvific manhood. Ultimately, Salvific Manhood calls for an alternate reading of Baldwin’s novels, introducing new theories for understanding the intricacies of African American manhood and American identity, all within a space where the presence of tragedy can give way to the possibility of salvation.?

Don’t trust your instincts—there is a better path to becoming a better man. It’s no secret: today’s men face a dilemma. Our culture tells them that their instincts are either toxic or salvific. Men are left with only two options: deconstruct and forfeit masculine identity or embrace it with wild abandon. They’re left to decide between ignoring their instincts or indulging them. Neither approach helps them actually understand their own masculine experiences nor how those experiences can lead them to become better men of God. The Bible doesn’t shy away from the reality of masculine instincts nor all of the ways those instincts can lead to destruction. Examining the lives of five men of the Bible, The 5 Masculine Instincts shows that these men aren’t masculine role models or heroes but are men who wrestled with their own desires and, by faith, matured them into something better. Through this book you’ll discover your own instincts are neither curse nor virtue. They are the experiences by which you develop a new and better instinct—an instinct of faith. By exploring sarcasm, adventure, ambition, reputation, and apathy, The 5 Masculine Instincts shows you how to better understand yourself and how your own instincts can be matured into something better. This is the path by which we become better men.

MANHOOD A Prescription from a Christian Doctor Manhood represents a broad subject that involves a journey extending many years. The journey involves navigating many roads successfully along the way. As a boy advances from being a passenger in a car seat, to eventually a driver of an automobile, a significant amount of growth, education and maturation becomes necessary. Dr. Michael S. Adams discusses a prescription for maneuvering in the correct lanes as a boy matures through the various stages of life. His prescription includes "medicine" that will travel through and connect the mind, body and soul. This book will instruct, challenge and inspire not just boys, but young adults and others seeking answers about true manhood. The life principles reviewed, will lead males-from childhood to adulthood-to achieve an outstanding grade as they cross the finish line known as manhood.

Our society is facing a great crisis that has been created by absentee men and fathers who are putting the future of countless families at risk. The problem, however, is not just the absence of men, but the absence of true manhood in men. In his book, Stepping Into Manhood, Brad Sullivan has given a response to this issue by outlining eight critical steps that every man must take to step into manhood. This user-friendly guide will help men understand manhood from God's perspective and inspire them to reach higher. This book is dedicated to restoring a godly sense of manhood so that men can be empowered to lead and impact their homes, jobs, churches and communities. The versatility of this book also makes it a great tool for personal study and devotions, men's Bible studies and small groups, for men's ministries in churches and effective in conference and teaching settings. Its thought provoking, insightful message is presented in a practical way that makes it easy to read, understand and apply. This is a must read book for every man striving to achieve his next level. It is also a great tool for women who seek to understand deeper truths about godly manhood.