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Book Review: Building the Benedict Option by Leah Libresco

October 16th, 2018 | 7 min read

By Jake Meador

Ever since Richard Weaver told us that “ideas have consequence,” a certain sort of conservative has relied heavily on a worldview-based analysis of culture, locating the problems that plague us in the sphere of ideas, beginning in the Ivory Tower and then tracing the problem downstream.

This is not necessarily a bad thing to do. Dallas Willard does it in Divine Conspiracy. C. S. Lewis does it in The Abolition of Man. Plenty of other forceful Christian writers have done the same.

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Jake Meador

Jake Meador is the editor-in-chief of Mere Orthodoxy. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Commonweal, First Things, Books & Culture, The Dispatch, National Review, Comment, Christianity Today, and Plough. He lives in his hometown of Lincoln, NE with his wife and four children.