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The first edition of Living Faithfully in a Fragmented World became one of the founding and guiding texts for new monastic communities. In this revised edition, Jonathan Wilson focuses more directly on lessons for these communities from Alasdair MacIntyre’s After Virtue. In the midst of the unsettling cultural shifts from modernity to postmodernity, a new monastic movement arises that strives to...

books that analyze Western culture from a missionary perspective.11 As a Westerner who has spent much of his life ministering in India, Newbigin offers some powerful analyses and insights. He is particularly sensitive to the effects of the Enlightenment on Western culture and to the challenge it represents for communicating the Gospel. Although Dyrness and Newbigin bring missionary insights from the Third World that we will draw on in the following chapters, they do not attend to the life of the
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