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Benedict Option, The : A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation

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Overview: "American Christians are going to have to come to terms with the brute fact that we live in a secular culture, one in which our beliefs make increasingly little sense. We speak a language that the world more and more either cannot hear or finds offensive to its ears." From the inside, American churches are hollowed out by the departure of young people and by an insipid pseude-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 brought a brief reprieve from the state's assault, but it will not stop the West's slide into decandence and dissolution. Confused and frightened Christians wonder "What went wrong?" and "What's next?"
The author argues that the way forward is actually the way back - all the way to St. Benedict of Nursia. This sixth-century monk, horified 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 belivers are blind to it, and their churches are too week 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.
Benedict Option Christians must learn the art of resistance with faith and creativity. They draw on tried-and-true Christian traditions and practices to strengthen their families and communities, revitalize local churches, create new schools, build support networks, and cultivate hospitality. They learn not just to give a resolute "no" to the false gods of this world but a joyful "yes" to eternal truths and life-giving customs rediscovered from our Christian past. As in the early church, they embrace a limited withdrawal from the world so they can more effectively show the love of God to it.
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. This book 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 dark age that has overtaken us. These are the days for building strong arks for the long journey across a sea of night.

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Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

261.0973 D812b

Penerbit

New York, USA : Sentinel., 2017

Deskripsi Fisik

262

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

9780735213296

Klasifikasi

261.0973

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Tipe Media

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Edisi

First edition

Subjek

Christianity and culture -- United States

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