The Christian Century

The Christian Century is a vagualy similar magazine to Sojourners and this month has an interesting article on 'the new monasticism'. It surveys a number of Christian intentional communities that see the way forward for Christianity as requiring the formation of small counter-cultural communities that embody a different social contract and system of values. The Christian Century sees the movement as a response "to moral philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre, who concludes his celebrated 1991 critique of modernity by calling for 'the construction of local forms of community within which civility and the intellectual and moral life can be sustained through the new dark ages which are already upon us. . . . We are waiting for another—doubtless very different—St. Benedict.'"

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