The Road to Manhood: A Christian Response to Toxic Masculinity

Abstract

Roadmaps are essential for finding the way through difficult and treacherous terrain. Our world today is full of treacherous terrain surrounding the topic of toxic masculinity. It has coalesced into two main arguments. On the one side are those who see masculinity itself as the problem. On the other are those who care for masculinity so deeply that their lives have become distorted versions of their own masculinity. This paper will discuss both extremes and where God stands on this topic.

The Christian man finds himself in the middle of two extremes, with neither seeming to align with God’s plan for manhood. With so many different opinions, it is difficult to know how to forge ahead. So God, in his perfectly orderly manner, gives men the ultimate roadmap: Scripture. Within God’s Word, man sees the example of the perfect father in God and the perfect man in Christ. Motivated by the incredible love of Christ, the Christian man is able to apply Scripture to his own life, and he is able to bring that message of perfect, masculine love to a world that so desperately needs it.