Living Faithfully in a Fragmented World

This book describes several aspects of contemporary culture that create both opportunities and threats to Christian mission. It offers understandings and practices that the church today must embrace in order to live faithfully and. witness effectively to the gospel. Following a presentation of the history of the church in relation to Western culture are chapters that draw upon specific suggestions in Alasdair MacIntyre's After Virtue: that we live in a fragmented rather than a pluralistic world; how the church has compromised its faithfulness by accommodating to the mainstream of morality; implications stemming from the collapse of "the Enlightenment project"; and the need for a "new monasticisim" together with forms the life of the church must take to sustain a faithful witness in contemporary culture.