A Woman’s Response to the Benedict Option

Authors

Leah Farish Esq., Oral Roberts University

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

5-1-2017

Abstract

Columnist Rod Dreher has written The Benedict Option to stimulate Christians to consider how evangelism and community can be lived out in 21^st-century America. He assumes the dominant culture is hostile to Christianity and pernicious to it, especially to children, and is going to become more so. Thus he harks back to the example of St. Benedict, who wrote his Rule of monastic life in about 530 A.D. as he withdrew from the corruption of Rome on one side and the pagan hordes on the other.

Dreher said in a recent interview that “This is not our culture anymore…[so we have to] shore up our own group, our own sense of ourselves right now because the culture is so overwhelming.” He calls us to “quit piling up sandbags in a doomed effort to hold back the rising waters and instead to build an ark.”

Comments

Article posted on enCourage website @ https://encourage.pcacdm.org/2017/05/01/a-womans-response-to-the-benedict-option/

Recommended Citation

Farish, Leah Esq., "A Woman’s Response to the Benedict Option" (2017). College of Arts and Cultural Studies Faculty Research and Scholarship. 1.
https://digitalshowcase.oru.edu/coacs_pub/1