Reveling in Complexity: Dittes' Male Metaphors and Their Bearing on the Crisis of Clergy Sexual Abuse |
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Authors: | John McDargh |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Theology, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts |
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Abstract: | In Driven By Hope: Men and Meaning (1996b), James E. Dittes explores the distinctively religious character of men's experience in postindustrial modern western culture. In this article, I first explicate Dittes' developing perspective on men's experience—his middle way —by focusing on his exploration of classical and biblical metaphors of men's life experience, including Oedipus and Adam, the magi and the monarch, the pilgrim and the conquistador, and the son and father. Then, I extend Dittes' models of normative male development to reflect upon the current crisis around clergy sexual abuse in the Roman Catholic Church. |
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Keywords: | men's experience yearning incompleteness pilgrimage celibacy clerical culture spiritual maturity |
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