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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...

represents the error of “Constantinianism.”5 Where denying our past may be a result of confusing the kingdom and the church, glorifying our past is often the result of confusing the kingdom and society. Since the conversion of the Emperor Constantine to Christianity and the subsequent rise of Christianity as the dominant religion of the empire in the early decades of the fourth century, the church has continually fallen into the error of thinking that the mission of the church was not to make disciples
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