Living in Wonder: Finding Mystery and Meaning in a Secular Age by Rod Dreher (En

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In Living in Wonder, Rod Dreher--NYT bestselling author of The Benedict Option and Live Not by Lies--cuts through the dangerous 'disenchantment' of contemporary life to reveal that deep within the Christian tradition are vital resources that powerfully illuminate our imagination and help regain our awareness of God's supernatural world around us.

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Join the bestselling author of The Benedict Option and Live Not by Lies on an exploration of the mystery and meaning of the supernatural world and discover that the universe is not what we think it is: it is far more strange, exciting, connected, and adventurous.The West has become "disenchanted"--closed to the idea that the universe contains the supernatural, the metaphysical, or the non-material. Christianity is in crisis. People today are leaving the Church because faith has become dry and lifeless. But people aren't leaving faith for atheism. They are still searching for the divine, and it might just be right under their noses.In Living in Wonder, thought leader, cultural critic, and New York Times bestselling author Rod Dreher shows you how to encounter and embrace wonder in the world. In his trademark mixture of analysis, reporting, and personal story, Dreher brings together history, cultural anthropology, neuroscience, and the ancient Church to show you--no matter your religious affiliation--how to reconnect with the natural world and the Great Tradition of Christianity so you can relate to the world with more depth and connection.He shares stories of miracles, rumors of angels, and outbreaks of awe to offer hope, as well as a guide for discerning and defending the truth in a confusing and spiritually dark culture, full of contemporary spiritual deceptions and tempting counterfeit spiritualities.The world is not what we think it is. It is far more mysterious, exciting, connected, and adventurous. As you learn practical ways to regain a sense of wonder and awaken your sense of God's presence--through prayer, attention, and living by spiritual disciplines--your eyes will be opened, and you will find the very thing every one of us searches for: our ultimate meaning.

Author Biography

Rod Dreher is a journalist and author of six books, including the New York Times bestsellers The Little Way of Ruthie Leming (2013), The Benedict Option (2017), and Live Not by Lies (2020). His work covers the intersection of religion, culture, and politics. Dreher has worked as a columnist for the New York Post, the Dallas Morning News, National Review, the American Conservative, the European Conservative, and other publications, and his work has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and Time. He is an Orthodox Christian. A native of Louisiana, Dreher lives in Budapest, where he is a senior fellow at The Danube Institute.

Review

A brave, lucid, and absolutely compelling book. Dreher brings his substantial storytelling skills to a subject in turns both disturbing and visionary: the business of enchantment. We live in a time of peril and opportunity, and Rod-as-guide leads us through the swamps and snares of a world on fire. He reveals a God with a soft spot for beauty, and the urgent need to cleave to his presence among the trance states of much of modern life. This is antidote to anyone perceiving Christianity as a worn-out husk rather than a vessel of wonder and vocation. Dreher is holding a light in the dark with this, maybe his most important, book. * Dr. Martin Shaw, author, Smoke Hole: Looking to the Wild in the Time of the Spyglass *Apocalypse comes cheap these days. You can find it prophesied in paperback at any airport bookstand: the end of this, the crisis of that, the decline of the other. Our sense of being drained--drained of spirit, of resources, of energy--is pervasive enough that it has become a source of exhaustion in itself. We are weary of being wearied, bored of the end of the world. But Rod Dreher's Living in Wonder is apocalyptic in the true and costly sense of the word. Which is to say it is a revelation. The light hasn't been sapped out of the world, Dreher suggests, but out of us--by our distractions, by our technological ambitions, by the dull ache of our compulsive pleasures. 'As a man is, so he sees,' wrote William Blake. Our highest imperative is to relearn how to really look and really see. Dreher walks with us as a fellow novice alongside unassuming masters of this sacred practice: miraculously rescued former addicts, impish mystics disguised as lawyers, grateful survivors of demonic possession. Like all works of true religion, this book is not a didactic exercise in moralism but an adventure into endless mystery, an escape route from the dreary certainties of the disenchanted world. * Spencer A. Klavan, host, Young Heretics podcast; author, Light of the Mind, Light of the World *It's thrilling to read an honest and courageous writer like Rod Dreher on the great subject of the age: how to re-enchant our disenchanted world. God is not dead. We have learned not to see him. Through books like this, we can learn to see truly again. Timely, necessary, and wise. * Andrew Klavan, author, The Truth and Beauty *Living in Wonder captures the tectonic shift happening deep under politics, culture, and, in many ways, religion. Dreher sees how the worldview set to replace Enlightenment rationalism is already here. This new world is full of living presence, glimmering with intelligences that act on and through us. Hopefully, with his help, we can learn to discern the spirits. * Jonathan Pageau, host, The Symbolic World *Open this book and it gets real weird, real fast. Or don't open it--things are going to get weird anyway. A society founded on the dogmatic exclusion of everything that eludes reductive explanation will ultimately find itself at a loss, and this is now our situation. As the crisis of the West unfolds, we have begun to get an inkling that our picture of reality has been cramped and partial. The good news is that this bewilderment makes our time pregnant with the possibility of discovery. In Living in Wonder, Rod Dreher tells us that 'the world is not what we think it is. It is far more mysterious, exciting, and adventurous.' Transcending cultural doomsaying, Dreher achieves, and invites us to, a new freshness of spirit. * Matthew B. Crawford, New York Times bestselling author, The World beyond Your Head; Substack author, Archedelia *The yawning gulf beneath the surface of our culture is becoming clearer every day, but Rod Dreher shows us that it doesn't have to be this way. The world is enchanted, magical, and soaked with God. Our ancestors knew it, here in the West as elsewhere. Modernity has hidden this truth from us, but it can't be hidden forever. Living in Wonder points the way out of the delusions of our modern dream and back toward reality. This is an important book. * Paul Kingsnorth, novelist; author, The Abbey of Misrule *

Details ISBN0310369126 Author Rod Dreher Publisher Zondervan Year 2024 ISBN-13 9780310369127 Format Hardcover Imprint Zondervan Subtitle Finding Mystery and Meaning in a Secular Age Country of Publication United States Audience General Place of Publication Grand Rapids Alternative 9780310369134 Language English ISBN-10 0310369126 UK Release Date 2024-10-22 Publication Date 2024-10-22 US Release Date 2024-10-22 Pages 288 We've got this

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