Enter Rod Dreher’s latest book, Living in Wonder. It tells the story of how such a state of affairs came about, explains the ways in which the collapse of materialism—and the attendant re-enchantment—is already taking place, and helps Christians to learn how to live a more enchanted faith.
This latest book serves as the capstone to Dreher’s trilogy of books on how to live as Christians in a post-Christian world. The Benedict Option made the case that thick, deeply shaped communities were needed for Christian churches to withstand increasingly anti-Christian cultural pressures. In Live Not By Lies, Dreher drew inspiration from Christian dissidents under communism to arm believers to withstand the encroaching soft totalitarianism spreading across the West. And now, Living in Wonder makes the case that the post-Christian West will be re-enchanted similar to the pre-Christian world and that only a living, vibrant, miraculous faith will be adequate for such a time.
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