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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Benedict option
    sub title: a strategy for Christians in a post-Christian nation
  name:
    name part: Dreher, Rod
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2017
    copyright date: 2017
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: viii, 262 pages ; 24 cm
  abstract: In a radical vision for the future of Christianity, American Conservative columnist Rod Dreher calls on American Christians to prepare for the coming Dark Age by embracing an ancient Christian way of life. From the inside, American churches are hollowed out by the departure of young people and by an insipid pseudo-Christianity. From the outside, they are beset by challenges to religious liberty in a rapidly secularizing culture. Keeping Hillary Clinton out of the White House might have bought a brief reprieve from the state's assault, but it will not stop the West's slide into decadence and dissolution. Rod Dreher argues that the way forward is actually the way back -- all the way to St. Benedict of Nursia. This sixth-century monk, horrified by the moral chaos following Rome's fall, retreated to the forest and created a new way of life for Christians. He built enduring Christian communities based on principles of order, hospitality, stability, and prayer. His spiritual centers of hope were strongholds of light throughout the Dark Ages, and saved not just Christianity but Western civilization. Today, a new, post-Christian barbarism reigns. Many believers are blind to it, and their churches are too weak to resist. Politics offers little help in this spiritual crisis. What is needed is the Benedict Option, a strategy that draws on the authority of Scripture and the wisdom of the ancient church. The goal: to embrace exile from mainstream culture and construct a resilient counterculture. This book is both manifesto and rallying cry for Christians who, if they are not to be conquered, must learn how to fight on culture war battlefields like none the West has seen for fifteen hundred years. The Benedict Option is for all mere Christians -- Protestant, Catholic, Orthodox -- who can read the signs of the times. Neither false optimism nor fatalistic despair will do. Only faith, hope, and love, embodied in a renewed church and resilient culture, can sustain believers in the da…
  table of contents: Introduction: The awakening -- The great flood -- The roots of the crisis -- A rule for living -- A new kind of Christian politics -- A church for all seasons -- The idea of a Christian village -- Education as Christian formation -- Preparing for hard labor -- Eros and the new Christian counterculture -- Man and the machine -- Conclusion: the Benedict decision.
  note: Rod Dreher.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-255) and index.
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    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Saint, Abbot of Monte Cassino
      name part: Benedict
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Benedictines
    topic: Rules
  subject:
    topic: Christianity and culture
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Religious fundamentalism
  subject:
    topic: Christian life
    genre: Early works to 1800
  subject:
    topic: Monasticism and religious orders
    genre: Rules
  classification: BR526 .D735 2017
  classification: 261.0973
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    title info:
      title: Benedict option
    name:
      name part: Dreher, Rod, author.
    origin info:
      publisher: New York : Sentinel, 2017
    identifier: (DLC) 2017001377
  identifier: 9780735213296
  identifier: 0735213291
  identifier: 2016053888
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 161121
    record change date: 20170926113701.0
    record identifier: in00003845631
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng