The Benedict Option by Rod Dreher
A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation
Argues that in a rapidly secularizing, morally fragmented society, religious believers should respond not primarily through political fights but by forming intentional, disciplined communities that recover the rhythms, practices and institutions—family life, liturgy, education, hospitality and local congregational support—needed to transmit faith and virtue across generations; drawing on the example of monastic stability, it calls for cultural withdrawal to preserve spiritual formation, build resilient alternative institutions, and practice a countercultural way of life that can endure and witness amid social disintegration.
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- 2017
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