Description: 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.
Brief description:
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 Quotes: 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