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Living Faithfully in a Fragmented World: From After Virtue to a New Monasticism is unavailable, but you can change that!

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...

to the purpose of glorifying God and enjoying God forever. Take, for instance, the quest for a happy, well-adjusted life. In connection with this quest, its defenders ask, “Should not worship make us feel better? We all have difficult, demanding lives. Shouldn’t worship be a place of healing and encouragement?” Of course, worship should make us “feel better” and encourage us, but it properly does so when it is ordered to the right end. If we approach worship as a mass therapy session, then the effect
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