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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...

and my development of it in the previous chapters is correct, then for the sake of a lost and dying world we desperately need the church to recover a sense of its mission through faithful living. The call for a new monasticism, then, is a contingent tactic, necessary in this time and place for the church to serve the world as God calls us to serve, not as the world calls us. Therefore, we must hope, pray, and work for a new monasticism—that will, doubtless, be a very
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