{"id":296260,"date":"2025-05-30T20:59:46","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T20:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/30\/the-catholic-culture-podcast-ep-78-three-marks-of-manhood-pt-1-patriarchy-purified\/"},"modified":"2025-05-30T20:59:46","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T20:59:46","slug":"the-catholic-culture-podcast-ep-78-three-marks-of-manhood-pt-1-patriarchy-purified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/30\/the-catholic-culture-podcast-ep-78-three-marks-of-manhood-pt-1-patriarchy-purified\/","title":{"rendered":"The Catholic Culture Podcast: Ep. 78 &#8211; Three Marks of Manhood, Pt. 1: Patriarchy Purified"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"date\">Jun 19, 2020<\/p>\n<p>There is a great need for Catholics to acknowledge the timeless<br \/>\nBiblical and Magisterial teachings about the headship of fathers<br \/>\nover their families. Yet St. Paul\u2019s simultaneous call for husbands<br \/>\nto love their wives as Christ loves the Church &#8211; that is, to the<br \/>\npoint of death &#8211; is sometimes treated as an addendum when in fact<br \/>\nit is the very essence of Christian patriarchy.<\/p>\n<p>In his 2010 book <em>The Three Marks of Manhood: How to Be<br \/>\nPriest, Prophet, and King of Your Family<\/em>, the \u201cfather of<br \/>\nChristian psychology\u201d G.C. Dilsaver upholds the natural and<br \/>\nsupernatural basis of male headship while describing how it must be<br \/>\npurified of pagan, dominating and selfish elements. The path to<br \/>\ntrue Christian manhood is through the crucible of humiliation.<br \/>\nAgainst the notion of the rigidly masculine and \u201cactive\u201d man,<br \/>\nDilsaver also insists that receptivity is the basic condition of<br \/>\nthe creature regardless of sex\u2014hence the maxim of Catholic<br \/>\nmysticism that the soul is feminine in relation to Christ.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first part of a two-part interview.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[2:48] Christian patriarchy is about devotion to the feminine as<br \/>\nsomething sacred<\/p>\n<p>[4:29] Self-sacrificial love as the essence of headship<\/p>\n<p>[10:25] The need to purify male headship in an exclusively<br \/>\nChristian spirit rather than returning to a historical model from<br \/>\npast Christian civilization which retained pagan elements<\/p>\n<p>[13:35] Inseparability of the hierarchy and sacramentality of<br \/>\nmarriage<\/p>\n<p>[17:37] Magnanimity\u2014greatness of soul, greatness of cause,<br \/>\ntempered with humility<\/p>\n<p>[21:43] Receptivity, not fatherhood, intrinsic to all creatures;<br \/>\nthe soul is feminine in relation to Christ; woman as pure<br \/>\ndistillation of creatureliness<\/p>\n<p>[28:32] Men need to learn from the specifically feminine aspects<br \/>\nof Mary\u2019s greatness<\/p>\n<p>[33:02] The problem with stoicism and machismo<\/p>\n<p>[37:37] The scepter of self-discipline and the insufficiency of<br \/>\nacquired virtue; necessity of humiliation and love in the present<br \/>\nmoment<\/p>\n<p>[44:40] Initiation of young men vs. young women<\/p>\n<p>[50:33] Dangers of getting married young just to get married,<br \/>\nwithout self-knowledge<\/p>\n<p><strong>Links<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The Three Marks of Manhood<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tanbooks.com\/three-marks-of-manhood-how-to-be-priest-prophet-and-king-of-your-family-2.html\"><br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.tanbooks.com\/three-marks-of-manhood-how-to-be-priest-prophet-and-king-of-your-family-2.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Psychomoralitics website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.souldeepscience.com\/\">http:\/\/www.souldeepscience.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Psychomoralitics<\/em> book <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Psychomoralitics-Soul-Deep-Alternative-Failed-Professions\/dp\/099936071X\"><br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Psychomoralitics-Soul-Deep-Alternative-Failed-Professions\/dp\/099936071X<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Celebrating God-Given Gender<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Celebrating-God-Given-Gender-Masculinity-Femininity\/dp\/0999360701\"><br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Celebrating-God-Given-Gender-Masculinity-Femininity\/dp\/0999360701<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This podcast is a production of CatholicCulture.org. 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