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abortion, 1, 22, 43, 79, 80, 82, 98, 155, 185
Adams, John, 36–37
Aelred of Rievaulx, Saint, 213
After Virtue (MacIntyre), 16–18
Alfeyev, Metropolitan Hilarion, 136
Alleluia Community, 132
American Bar Association, 180
Anderson, Chris, 230–31
Aniol, Scott, 111–12
Anthony of Egypt, Saint, 14
Antichrist, 48–49
anti-Semitism, 182
Aristotle, 29, 33, 34, 152, 154
Arnold, Matthew, 39
asceticism, 31, 42, 63–65, 71, 101, 117, 121, 219
Association of Classical and Christian Schools, 164
Atlantic, 79
Auden, W. H., 241
Augustine, Saint, 13, 86, 90, 104
Babylonian captivity, 238
Bacon, Francis, 33, 34, 219–20
Bainbridge, Stephen, 185
barbarians, 13–14, 15, 17, 154
Barna Group, 214–15
Basilica of St. Benedict, 242–43
beauty, 76–77, 117–19, 120, 148, 210, 226
Belgau, Ron, 213
Benedict, Saint, 4, 12–18, 23, 47–48, 51–52, 60, 64–66, 68–69, 71–75, 77, 91, 227, 242
disciples of, 14, 47, 55–56, 75, 125
as father of Western monasticism, 2, 14–15, 17–18, 51, 148
Benedict XVI, Pope, 4, 8, 50, 117, 208
Benedictine order, 47–54, 57–62, 66–67, 70–77, 101, 108, 116, 126, 131, 141, 148, 176–78, 196, 197, 218
Benedict Option, 72, 77, 84, 91, 94–98, 101, 116, 124, 129, 139, 142–43, 175, 185, 237–40, 243
definition of, 18
goals of, 86, 88, 94, 121, 146, 159, 177, 186–87, 194, 197, 217, 236
Bernhard, Martin, 61, 67, 70–71, 76, 131–33
Berry, Wendell, 115, 191, 196–98, 216–17
Bible, 10, 11, 19, 31–32, 40, 51, 53, 58–59, 66, 90, 103, 105–7, 113, 114, 199–200, 203–4
study of, 150–52
birth control pill, 43
Black Death, 29
Bloy, Léon, 76
Boersma, Hans, 108
Boyd, Ian, 173
Brave New World (Huxley), 154
Brown, Louise, 222
Brown, Peter, 199
Brownback, Sam, 84
Buber, Martin, 251
Calciu, Gheorghe, 120–21
Calvin, John, 104
Campus Pride, 182
Catholic Counter-Revolution, 32
Centers for Christian Study, 168
Centers for Disease Control, 156
Chan, Simon, 110–11
Chancellot, 169–70
Chaput, Charles, 151–52
chastity, 196, 199, 204, 206, 213, 217
Chesterton, G. K., 173
children, 103, 131, 134, 143, 187, 209
peer groups and, 127–28
raising of, 122–23, 125–29, 132, 138, 156–58, 195
see also education
Christianity, 1–5, 12–16, 22–32, 36, 40, 58, 96
countercultural, proactive approach to, 2, 3–4, 5, 12, 18, 134, 147, 171, 173, 196–97
decline of, 1–3, 4, 8–12, 22–23, 40–43, 46, 50, 68, 81, 100–101, 108, 198
early church fathers in, 104–5, 151
patronizing businesses of, 188–90, 193
restoration of, 3–4, 50, 54, 76, 79, 101
threat to, 87–88, 93, 123, 204
traditional, conservative, 1–2, 3–4, 9, 10, 12, 18–19, 22, 39, 54, 76, 78, 80–84, 89–90, 98–99, 105, 123, 137, 236
Cipolla, Richard, 243
City of God (Augustine), 13, 86
Clear Creek Abbey, 218
Clément, Olivier, 209
Clinton, Hillary, 21, 80, 81, 122
Colson, Chuck, 136
Comello, Chad, 189
Coming Apart (Murray), 22
Communion and Liberation (CL), 190
Communism, 78, 91–93, 97, 120, 144–45
Communist Manifesto (Marx and Engels), 38
community, 4–5, 8, 12, 17–18, 22, 44, 54, 67–71, 74, 77, 83, 88–89, 93–98, 101–2, 122–25
building of, 139–43
connections within, 130–34, 189–90
love of, 138–39
Connerton, Paul, 109
conscience, 11, 179, 183–84, 186
conservatism, 1–2
Conserving America? (Deneen), 90–91
Constitution, U.S., 36–37
consumerism, 2, 11, 68, 132, 145, 178, 234
contemplation, 225, 227–28, 235
conversion, 13, 51, 82, 96, 101, 118–19, 207
Copernicus, 33
Cothran, Martin, 148–49
courage, 185–86
Crawford, Matthew, 117–18, 221, 224
Creation, 178, 179, 197–98, 208, 209, 216, 229
Crunchy Cons (Dreher), 2
Currie, Chris, 133–34, 140, 163–64
Czechoslovakia, 78, 91–95, 97, 144–45
Daigle, Brian, 162–63
Dallas, University of, 174–75
Dante Alighieri, 152, 172, 209, 226, 241
Darwin, Charles, 38
Davoren, Francis, 72–73, 74, 176–77, 190, 233
Declaration of Independence, 36
Deism, 10–11, 35, 45, 151, 235, 239
Demant, Vigo Auguste, 251
democracy, 23, 37, 38, 40, 46, 89
Democracy in America (Tocqueville), 38
Democratic Party, 3, 79, 80, 89
Deneen, Patrick J., 90–91, 153, 177–78
Denton, Melinda Lundquist, 10
Depression, Great, 79
Descartes, René, 34–35, 46, 154, 220
Desert Fathers, 64
desire, 42–44, 107, 117–18, 119, 227
de Waal, Esther, 49
Discarded Image, The (Lewis), 25–26
Distribution, 189
Divine Comedy (Dante), 152, 209, 226
Doom, Erin, 136–37
Dover Beach (Arnold), 39
Dreher, Lucas, 7
Dreher, Rod, 1, 7, 66–68, 122–23, 128–29, 206–7
Dreher, Ruthie, 66–67
Dunaway, Marc, 139
earthquakes, 241–43
Eastern Orthodox Church, 1, 44, 64, 103, 104, 113, 114, 130–31, 138–39, 161, 162, 186
Eberstadt, Mary, 123
ecumenism, 136–38
Edsall, Thomas Byrne, 79
education, 4–5, 77, 91, 94–95, 98, 122, 143–75, 180
Christian, 145–55, 158–75, 190–91
homeschool, 161, 165–66, 189, 229
public school, 155–58, 185, 187, 210
sex, 210–12
Education Department, U.S., 165
Edwards, Robert G., 222
Eighth Day Books, 136–37
Eighth Day Institute (EDI), 136–37
elections, U.S., of 2016, 3, 21, 79–80, 89–90
Engels, Friedrich, 38
Enlightenment, 23, 32–38, 42, 46, 47, 90, 154, 198
Esolen, Anthony, 172
Ethics and Public Policy Center, 83
eugenics, 234
Europe, 8, 15, 29–30, 32, 37, 45, 49, 100, 105–6
resistance movements in, 78, 91–95, 97
euthanasia, 185
Evangelicalism, 37, 39, 79–82, 84, 101–3, 110–11, 113, 117–19, 127, 134, 150–51, 207
Everlasting Man, The (Chesterton), 173
Excellence in Writing (IEW), 189
Ezekiel, 238
faith, 4–5, 8, 12, 16, 18, 34, 40, 49, 60, 63, 94, 95, 100, 103, 113, 115, 118, 122
challenges to, 184–86, 192–94, 197, 204
family, 1, 4, 11, 12, 67, 69, 77, 82, 89–90, 96, 115, 123–29, 137, 193
natural, 210–12
Farha, Warren, 137
fasting, 63–65, 114–15, 227, 228, 238, 241
Fellowship of Catholic University Students (FOCUS), 167–68
Fellow Teachers (Rieff), 153–54
Finkler, Jerry, 130–31
Finkler, Shelley, 130–31
First Great Awakening, 37
Folsom, Cassian, 48–52, 59, 77, 239, 241–42
Foster, Steve, 188
Franklin, Benjamin, 35
Frassati, Pier Giorgio, 140
Freud, Sigmund, 41–42
frozen embryos, 222–23
Gardner, Stephen L., 43
gay rights, 3, 9, 80, 175, 179–82, 201–3
Germany, Nazi, 120
G. K. Chesterton Society, 140
globalism, 80
God, 8, 10, 15–16, 19, 23–28, 30, 33–35, 39, 41, 46–47, 50–57, 61–73, 89, 96–97, 111
goodness, 76–77, 117–18, 119, 205–7, 210, 226
Gorbachev, Mikhail, 144
Gospel of John, 101
Gospels, 12, 31, 56, 58, 63, 101, 107, 112, 118, 197
Gottlieb, Mark, 124, 130, 146, 152
Greco-Roman era, 148, 152–53, 154, 198–99
Gregory, Brad, 32
Gregory the Great, Saint, 14
Gushee, David, 181
gyrovague, 65–67
Haguewood, Ben, 112
Hall, David, 183
Hall of Men, 136–37
Hanby, Michael, 145–46, 163, 220–21, 231
happiness, 10, 36, 41, 63, 96, 107, 208, 220, 235
Harrington, Matthew, 110
Hauerwas, Stanley, 114
heresy, 195–96
Hitler, Adolf, 120
Holy Spirit, 77, 103, 113, 140, 201, 228, 238, 244
Houston Baptist University, 171
How Societies Remember (Connerton), 109
How the West Really Lost God (Eberstadt), 123
humanism, 30–31
Human Rights Campaign Foundation, 179–80
Humanum Series, The, 211
Hundred Years War, 29
imagination, 11, 23, 25, 29, 72, 103, 105, 146, 195, 209
Inchausti, Robert, 107
individualism, 11, 16, 29, 30, 38, 41, 43
Industrial Revolution, 23, 37–38, 46
Institute for Catholic Liberal Education, 164–65
Internet, 52, 106, 216, 217, 224–26
disconnecting from, 218–19, 228–29, 232–33
InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, 169
in vitro fertilization (IVF), 222–23
Israel, 208
James, William, 226–27
Jefferson, Thomas, 35
Jesus Christ, 5, 14, 19, 25, 47, 53–56, 58–60, 63–65, 68–76, 96, 101–102, 107, 152, 184
crucifixion of, 64, 109, 114–15, 209
resurrection of, 109
second coming of, 132
teaching of, 123, 207, 214, 239
Jesus Prayer, 59
Jews, 182
Orthodox, 124, 130, 146, 151–52
Jobs, Steve, 230
John, Apostle, 120
John Paul II, Pope, 145
Kansas legislature, 84–85
Kennedy, Anthony, 43
King’s College, 172
L’Abri Fellowship, 168
Latter-day Saints (Mormons), 131–32, 135
Lee, Calee, 186–88
Le Guin, Ursula K., 47
Legutko, Ryszard, 145
Levin, Yuval, 83–84
Lewis, C. S., 25–26, 28, 97, 147, 155
LGBT agenda, 3, 9, 43, 156–57, 175, 179–83, 201–3, 213–14
liberalism, 9, 36, 90–91, 97–98, 145
liberty, 37, 42–44, 67; see also religious liberty
Life Together (Bonhoeffer), 70
Liturgical Theology (Chan), 111
liturgical worship, 101, 103, 105–13, 121
Locke, John, 35–36
“Lost Tools of Learning, The” (Sayers), 160
Louisiana, 59, 66–67, 105–6, 110, 118
Great Flood of 2016 in, 7–8, 19
love, 57, 62, 65, 69, 71–72, 94, 96, 101, 118, 214, 237, 238–39
of God, 53, 123, 129, 147–48, 209
searching for, 212–14
sexual, 197–98, 200, 207, 215–16
LuLaRoe, 187
Luscombe, Belinda, 215
Luther, Martin, 31–32, 154, 200
MacDonald, Sam, 190–92
MacIntyre, Alasdair, 2, 4, 16–18, 108
sex and, 195–96, 198–99, 200–201, 203, 208, 211–12
Martin, Ryan, 112
martyrdom, 120
Mattingly, Ryan, 167
McDowell’s Plumbling, 188
McLuhan, Marshall, 60, 105, 106, 107, 224
Medved, Michael, 122–23
memory, 16, 94, 100, 104, 106, 109, 235
Metge, Jed, 169–70
Middle Ages, 15, 23–30, 34, 46, 47, 148, 209, 225
modernity, 40, 41, 44, 50, 54, 101, 104, 113, 121, 145–46, 152, 203, 219–20, 224
Monastery of St. Benedict, 48–50, 56–57, 76, 141
monasticism, 2, 4, 14–15, 47–77, 124–26, 137, 148, 176–77, 212–13
faith and learning kept alive by, 15, 49
monks, 4, 14–15, 31–32, 48–62, 64–77, 101, 116, 119, 131, 176–78, 227, 241, 243–44
Moore, Russell, 101
Moore, Scott, 91
Moralistic Therapeutic Deism (MTD), 10–11, 45, 151, 235, 239
morality, 8, 9, 11, 14, 79, 83, 88, 89, 101, 117, 126, 127, 144
Muncy, Mitch, 174–75
Murray, Charles, 22
Muslims, 120
Napoleon I, Emperor of France, 37, 48–49
Nation, 202–3
Neuhaus, Richard John, 136
New Hampshire, University of, Crimes Against Children Research Center at, 229–30
Newman Centers, 167
New York Times, 153, 222, 230–31
Nietzsche, Friedrich, 38–39
Nivakoff, Benedict, 60, 64, 66, 71–73, 242–44
Nixen, Basil, 56, 58–59, 61–62, 71, 74, 242
Norcia (Nursia), 12–13, 48–49, 56, 70, 76, 94, 102, 119, 131, 141, 213, 233, 239, 241–43
Nurture Assumption, The (Harris), 128
Obergefell v. Hodges, 3, 9, 202
Origin of Species (Darwin), 38
Parable of the Talents, 73
“parallel polis,” 93–94
Paul, Saint, 25, 52–53, 57, 103, 113, 114–15, 134–35, 142, 159, 184, 198–99, 200, 201
Paul Among the People (Ruden), 198–99
Perkins, William, 177
Peter, Saint, 27
Pew Research Center, 9, 218, 222
Pico della Mirandola, 30
Planned Parenthood v. Casey, 43, 98
politics, 4–5, 8, 18, 32, 77, 123, 195
Polycarp, Saint, 105, 120, 193
polygamy, 43
Pontifical John Paul II Institute, 145
pornography, 170, 195, 198, 210, 214–16, 229–30
Postman, Neil, 210, 221, 228, 235
“Power of the Powerless, The” (Havel), 92
Prakarsa, Ignatius, 57, 65, 72–73, 94, 114, 119
prayer, 18, 19, 50–52, 55–60, 71, 86, 103, 110, 115, 121, 125, 130–31, 147
Presbyterian Church, 85, 112, 237
Protagoras, 30
Protestant Reformation, 23, 31–32, 45, 104, 154
Protestants, Protestantism, 1, 10, 32, 36, 39–40, 44, 45, 103–4, 110–11, 164, 202, 204, 234
psychiatry, 226
psychoanalysis, 41
Pudewa, Andrew, 189
Radner, Ephraim, 9
reality, 25, 26, 34, 160–61, 234–35
reason, 16, 23, 30, 37, 46, 94, 113, 118, 119
Reba Place Fellowship, 189–90
Reboot, 228
relationships
building of, 136–38, 184, 215–16
Religious Freedom Restoration Act, 2–3
religious liberty, 9, 80, 82, 84–85, 86–88, 98, 104, 123, 181, 183–84, 185, 192
discrimination and, 2–3
Renzi, Matteo, 242
Republican Party, 3, 8, 78, 79–85, 86, 90, 99
Reynolds, John Mark, 149, 155, 161–62, 171–72
Rieff, Philip, 41–42, 153–54, 198, 203–4
Roberts, Christopher, 200
Roman Catholic Church, 1, 10, 31–32, 34, 36, 39, 44, 48, 79–81, 93, 104, 118–19, 140–41, 207
corruption in, 31
mass and sacraments of, 24, 106, 167, 243
decline and fall of, 2, 8, 12–16, 30, 42, 90, 98
Romania, 120
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 38
Ruden, Sarah, 198–99
Rule of Saint Benedict, ix, 4, 15, 18, 47, 50–56, 59–66, 68–69, 72, 74–75, 77, 88, 102–3, 116, 134, 148, 151, 178, 227, 243
Russian Orthodox Church, 110, 136
Saint Constantine School, 149, 161–62, 171–72
St. Jerome Academy, 163–65
St. Jerome Parish, 133–34
St. John’s Cathedral, 139
St. John’s Newman Center, 167
same-sex marriage, 1, 3, 9, 80, 201, 202–3
samizdat, 95
Sanchez, Carlos, 119
Sarah, Cardinal Robert, 242
Sargeant, Alexi, 141–42
Sargeant, Leah Libresco, 141–42
Sayers, Dorothy, 160
Schaeffer, Edith, 168
Schaeffer, Francis, 168
Schmemann, Alexander, 228
Scholastica, Saint, 14–15
Scientific Revolution, 32–34, 45–46
Scuola libera G. K. Chesterton, 141, 173, 174
secularism, 8–9, 10, 41, 44–45, 79, 97–98, 100, 102, 124, 133, 136, 150, 175, 196
Sequitur Classical Academy, 161, 162, 165
Sermarini, Federica, 173–74
Sermarini, Marco, 125, 140–42, 173–74, 239–41
sex, 5, 40, 77, 79, 127, 182, 194–217, 221
Christian view of, 195–217
disordered, 195
education in, 210–12
goodness of, 205–7
love and, 197–98, 200, 207, 215–16
marriage and, 195–96, 198–99, 200–201, 203, 208, 211–12
procreation and, 195, 209, 210, 221
teenage, 155–56
sexting, 230
Sexual Revolution, 9, 23, 43, 78, 116, 185, 198, 201–4, 208, 216, 221
Shakespeare, William, 154
Sibley, Bryce, 167–68
sin, 31, 44, 117, 125, 170, 185, 200, 226
smartphones, 218–19, 225, 228, 229–31
Smith, Christian, 10, 11, 39, 209–10, 234
Smith, James K. A., 107
Social Gospel movement, 39
social justice, 208
Society for Classical Learning, 165
Society of Christian Philosophers, 171
Solidarity labor movement, 145
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr, 139
soul, 9, 11, 58, 60, 96, 123, 176
Southern Baptist Church, 116–17, 126–27, 205
Soviet Union, 144
collapse of, 14
spiritual discipline, 100, 101, 109–10, 114, 116–17
Spiritual Friendship movement, 213–14
stability, 65–67, 71, 121, 240, 243
Stidham, Deanne, 187
Stormans Family, 193
Stutzman, Barronelle, 193
Sullivan, Andrew, 232–33
Supreme Court, U.S., 3, 9, 43, 82, 98, 193, 202
Swinburne, Richard, 171
Taoism, 27
Taylor, Charles, 23–24, 26, 44–45, 203
technology, 5, 37, 77, 106, 194, 217–36
disconnecting from, 218–19, 228–29, 232–33
Technopoly (Postman), 221
Theodoric, King, 13–14
Third Great Awakening, 39
Thomas Aquinas, Saint, 26–27, 104–5, 152
Thomas More, Saint, 185
Thompson, Greg, 237
Time, 215
Tocqueville, Alexis de, 38, 89, 123
Torah, 151
transgender rights, 3, 43, 156
Trappist order, 120
Trinity Western University, 182
Triumph of the Therapeutic, The (Rieff), 42, 198
Trivium, 160
Trueman, Carl, 156
Trump, Donald, 79–82
presidential election of, 3, 21, 79–80, 98
truth, 44, 76–77, 89, 93, 96, 100, 111, 117–20, 148, 205, 220–21, 223
Twenge, Jean, 207
Unitarianism, 36
United States, 21, 38, 39, 133
decline of religious affiliation in, 9
Founding Fathers of, 35–37
post-Christian, 4, 12, 80, 86, 89, 101, 121, 158, 162
Virginia, University of (UVA), 168–69
virtue, 2, 4, 16, 19, 36–38, 77, 148, 149
Walker, Andrew T., 205
Warsaw Pact, 144
Way of the Cross, 11
Wilken, Robert Louis, 100–101, 117–18
William of Ockham, 26–28
Willimon, Will, 114
Wilmeth, Augustine, 57, 64, 73, 213
Christian networks and, 188–90, 193
entrepreneurial, 186–88
industrial, 190–92
physical labor as, 51, 176–94, 233
Wu, Tim, 226–27
Wurmbrand, Richard, 120–21
Xist Publishing, 187
Yeshiva University, 151
Zion, 132