Adam, There Is a Glitch in Your Fig Leaf!

About the Book

In the well-known fairytale about the Emperors new clothes by H C Andersen the deception about the Emperor’s new clothes is subscribed to by the entire adult world. But the children see through it. The emperor was naked and did not know it. The story pinpoints the massive vanity and self delusion that we as men are capable of. It is the front page news of every daily paper, every day. Since the dawn of time man has been hiding from God because he knows that he is naked. His attempts to hide that nakedness has created a thousand forms of “fig leaves”, but there is always a glitch that shows his real and very guilty self. As ignored and downgraded as the Bible may be, it still tells the story of man’s fall and his possible restoration. The imagery about that and templates for it are all in that library of God’s interaction with man. That is what this book is about. Or if you like: “When everything else has gone wrong: read the instructions.” Teddy Donobauer has studied men and male hood and the Bible for over fifty years. He knows himself and male frailty in depth. He speaks out of his own journey through life and hopes that his quest for reality would be useful to his “brothers in arms.”

About the Author

The author’s search for his authentic self has been going on for 74 years. Through fatherless childhood and teenage years without other role models than ‘modern man’, he has meandered through a few occupations, educations, relationships and cultural environments in search of ‘Behold a man’. Most men he has met have been no better or worse than he found himself to be. But he was never alone. An inseparable shadow has followed him. And finally it dawned on him that shadows prove that there is a light somewhere creating it. Having seen that light he has borrowed the torch which he uses here to point to the Man of Sorrows, acquainted with the grief of being a man. Born and raised in Austrian mountains and on the West Coast of Sweden, studied Theology in UK and Sweden, Bible Teacher, Professional Chef, Caregiver, Auto-worker at Volvo, teacher of Philosophy and Religion and Languages. Married and lives in South Yorkshire in the UK. A Christian male in search of Man.