Originally published at National Catholic Register
Providing Christians with the intellectual weapons to survive the decay of post-Christian civilization is a mission Rod Dreher has pursued throughout his career as a journalist. His work acquired a new dimension with the publication, in 2017, of The Benedict Option : A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation, followed by Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents in 2020, two internationally acclaimed works translated into more than a dozen languages.
His latest book, Living in Wonder: Finding Mystery and Meaning in a Secular Age, available Oct. 22, completes this trilogy of sorts, which tackles all the major issues of our time from a political, philosophical and spiritual perspective.
In Living in Wonder, Dreher explores the ways to rekindle the flame of the faith, drawing on the history of the early Church — which, through its mysticism and the many miracles it brought forth, massively turned souls away from paganism — and sifting through the various historical ruptures from the late Middle Ages to the present day that have led to the disenchantment of the Western world.
This book, which the author conceives as a manual, aims to teach the reader “how to seek and how to
