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The Meaning and Mystery of Man equips men with a much-needed, uncompromising, profound, scriptural, and theological vision of what it really means to be a man. A deeper dive, yet accessible, The Meaning and Mystery of Man builds a very strong case for headship, patriarchy, and the essential role and responsibility of the Christian man. Consider this an apologetics book for fatherhood, masculinity, and spiritual leadership.WHAT YOU WILL LEARN: Why St. Joseph and his vocation as father and husband is key to building a true vision of man How man's responsibility and role is unique from the woman and why The essential role of a husband and father An uncompromising vision of a husband's headship A biblical defense of patriarchal authority St. Joseph as a "new Adam" provides the essential link between the original Adam and the new Adam, Jesus Christ That the man is commissioned by God to bring to completeness marriage and the family

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Publié par	TAN Books
Date de parution	14 septembre 2021
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781505122534
Langue	English

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THE
M EANIN G
AND MYSTERY
OF MAN
THE
M EANIN G
AND MYSTERY
OF MAN
THE ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITY OF THE CHRISTIAN MAN: A BIBLICAL STUDY OF ADAM, ST. JOSEPH AND JESUS CHRIST
DEVIN SCHADT
TAN Books Gastonia, North Carolina
The Meaning and Mystery of Man: The Role and Responsibility of the Christian Man: A Biblical Study of Adam, St. Joseph and Jesus Christ © 2020 Devin Schadt
All rights reserved. With the exception of short excerpts used in critical review, no part of this work may be reproduced, transmitted, or stored in any form whatsoever, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Creation, exploitation and distribution of any unauthorized editions of this work, in any format in existence now or in the future—including but not limited to text, audio, and video—is prohibited without the prior written permission of the publisher.
Excerpts from the English translation of the Catechism of the Catholic Church , Second Edition, ©1994, 1997, 2000 by Libreria Editrice Vaticana, United States Catholic Conference, Washington, D.C. All rights reserved.
Unless otherwise noted, Scripture quotations are from the Douay-Rheims version of Sacred Scripture. Copyright 1914 by John Murphy Company
Cover Design: Devin Schadt
ISBN: 978-1-5051-2251-0
Kindle ISBN: 978-1-5051-2252-7
ePUB ISBN: 978-1-5051-2253-4
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CONTENTS
Introduction: A Search for the Divine Vision of Man
1. The New Genesis
Man: A Mystery unto Himself
The Original Cause
The New Beginning
The Trinity in Humanity
The Disorder of the Ultimate Order
St. Joseph: A New Adam
The New Genesis
The Purpose of This Work
2. The Guardian of the Garden: Defining Man’s Position in God’s Plan
Temptation: A Means to Salvation
The Garden: Place of Paradise and Battle
Faulting at His Post
St. Joseph: Guardian of the Garden of Mary
Jesus Christ: The Guardian of the Garden
The Sacred Summons
3. Man’s Role and Responsibility: The Hierarchy of Sacrificial Responsibility
Unique Roles, Equal Dignity
Sacrificial Responsibility
The Pinnacle of Creation
The Role and Responsibility of St. Joseph
Jesus, the New Adam and His Great Command
4. A Husband’s Headship: At the Service of Completing the Bride
The Need for Woman
Adam’s Solitude
The Holy Desire
The Completion of Man’s Humanity
St. Joseph’s Need for the Woman
St. Joseph: Releasing the Need to be Needed
St. Joseph’s Return to Solitude
The Need for St. Joseph
Scandal of Our Age
The Supreme Calling of Christ
Christ and the Masculine Pattern of Desire
Headship: At the Service of Completing the Bride
Jesus the Bridegroom
Christ’s Reclaiming Marriage
Israel Transformed into The New Israel: The Church
Completion of the Body, the Bride
A Case for Headship
The Beginning and Origin of the Man
Mutual Submission and Authentic Male Headship
St. Paul’s Outline of Male Headship
Deliver Yourself for Her
Sanctify Her
Present Her
5. Patriarchal Authority: At the Service of Completing the Family
The Stage of Manhood
Head of His House
Christ’s Pattern of the Pater Familias
The Enemy of the Pater Familias
The Sins and Purposes of the Devil
The Two Causes of Sin
Satan’s Two Path’s to the Soul
Satan’s Strategy to Overthrow the Pater Familias
Adam’s Dominion
St. Joseph, Lord of His Household
Jesus: The Lord of God’s House
False Seeds Sown
A Summons to Stewardship
INTRODUCTION
A Search for the Divine Vision of Man
G od has imparted men with the noble task to establish peace, sometimes with the sword; to unite peoples by proclaiming the truth, a truth that often divides; and to, in the name of God, lead their families, which demands that they learn to follow Christ.
As of late, though, it appears that the true Christian man has become a byword, and his glory has all but faded. He is plagued by a haunting, hidden shame for his desire to exercise his God-given power and authority for the purpose of following Christ’s mandate to save souls.
This is not accidental. The devil is acutely aware that the conversion of the world depends on a thriving, faithful, Church militant; that an uncompromising, life-giving Church is dependent upon faithful, godly families who pursue holiness and love sacrificially; and that families such as these are dependent upon the husband, the father, to lead his family to salvation in Jesus Christ. If that man is shamed into suppressing his authority and power, the divine project to save mankind is gravely compromised.
If a man is married, has children, and is serious about his responsibility to Christ and his family, he senses that he is being summoned to spiritual combat, to be the spiritual leader of his family. He responds to his heavenly Commander’s voice, the battle drum of divine inspiration, the horn beckoning him to the front lines of what could be one of the greatest spiritual battles of all ages.
Yet, when he arrives at the field of decision, scrambling into formation with others like himself, he looks for those commanders who have the answers to his identity, his destiny, his mission, and his vocation. What is his location in the battle? What position should he take? What is his role and his responsibility? Who answers to him, and to whom does he answer?
It is for lack of vision that the people perish, 1 and for lack of true shepherds that the flock flees and falls. 2 The world continually demands that men, in the name of equality and diversity, apologize for their masculinity and that they never forget their former misuse of that power, which is often considered a phenomenon of pancultural domination of women.
When a man apologizes, he attempts to right the wrong he has inflicted. Yet, if he denies who he is, he cannot repent of his wrongdoing. The world incessantly demands that men, particularly Christian husbands and fathers, apologize for the misuse of their fatherly authority by denying or suppressing the very identity and authority that enables them to right the wrong.
The answer to upholding women is not to spiritually neuter or obliterate male headship, but rather to understand it for what it actually is, to proclaim its glorious, biblical, theological vision, and to live it fully.
To adapt a well-known statement of the Venerable Archbishop Fulton Sheen for our use: There exist a multitude of people who hate patriarchal authority and male headship for what they think it is; and yet very few who despise it for what it truly is. This misrepresentation is the chief reason for this work.
What is male headship actually? What is patriarchal authority as God intended it to be? Can we, in the modern age, dare to believe, proclaim, and embody such ideas?
This book is not a practical, how-to, step-by-step, self-help book about being an involved dad or an attentive, nice husband. It doesn’t contain any inspirational personal stories. This piece will not reflect upon the woman’s role, her genius, or her contribution to the Church, to marriage, and to the family. Nor will this work focus on the suppression of women’s rights and how this evil ought to be rectified. In this regard, the Church offers many valuable resources. 3
This book is an attempt to mine the riches of Sacred Scripture and the traditional thought that is continually expressed by the Church for the purpose of proposing a theological, perhaps mystical, vision of man that is biblical, practical, and hopefully inspirational.
God, in His generosity, has packed Sacred Scripture with many insights particular to the nature, essence, role, and responsibility of man. As many of these truths were common sense, based on natural law, or embedded in the liturgy of the Church, there was no need for them to be formally defined. Yet, the cultural, sexual revolution that began in the 1960s has undermined, eclipsed, and potentially redefined the traditional understanding of man and his mission, robbing him of his unique spiritual influence.
In our age, the man who is husband, father, and head of his home, must be re-visited with a determination to define him, his role, and his responsibility in a theologically and scripturally accurate way.
What are the chief spiritual characteristics of the man that make him unique and complementary to the woman? Why did God create him in this way; and what constitutes his official station in life? Why is he essential to God’s plan to save humanity?
To develop adequate responses to these questions, we will mine the sacred texts for the purpose of discovering the divinely intended meaning of man by returning to the original man, Adam, and typologically comparing him to the God-man, the New Adam, Jesus Christ.
Yet, located between these two men exists the “just man,” St. Joseph, who in many ways is a fulfillment of the Old Adam, “the man of the Old Testament.” At the same time, he is a typological precursor for his Son, Jesus Christ, the New Adam. St. Joseph, therefore, “is like to a man that is a householder, who bringeth forth out of his treasure new things and old” (Mt 13:52). Therefore, St. Joseph is an essential bridge between the original man and the God-man, who will aid us in our attempts to unveil a full vision of the mature man in Christ.
Unfortunately, the satanic agenda to destroy the Church by re-defining and undermining the mission of the ecclesia domestica , the family, is well underway and, perhaps, reaching its final stages. There, however, exists one—the faithful husband and father—who has been entrusted with the task to hold fast at the helm and, by means of having the divine vision of his mission and office, navigate those entrusted to him to the shores of victory in Christ.
In the final analysis, the key to converting the nations is