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"The book you are holding is a kind of a war journal, written between 2020 and 2021 during "the COVID Interruption" and the violent outbursts in cities across America. Witnessing cultural collapse in every direction, philosopher Father Robert McTeigue, S.J., offers meditations on what it will take to build Christ-centered cultures in our time--what must be retrieved and what must be renewed. Since the French Revolution in 1789, the West, formerly called "Christendom", has chosen life without Christ. And ever since then, the West has produced much bad art and even more dead bodies--precisely because of this rejection. Father McTeigue, host of the The Catholic Current and author of Real Philosophy for Real People, invites us to explore new paths back to Christ. With thoughtfulness and grace, we can build, not a reconstruction of some mythical "Good Old Days", but rather a new Christendom that does justice both to what our ancestors entrusted to us and to what our posterity deserves from us. Inspired by Saint Augustine's The City of God, Christendom Lost and Found is an on-the-scene account of a cleric and scholar facing the accelerating convulsions of the West and of the Church, offering us insights, corrective guidance, and reasons for hope. Anyone who knows he has a debt to pay to the Christian past and the Christian future will benefit from this book." -- [Publisher]

Table of Contents:

• Machine generated contents note: Meditations
• I. Lament for Christendom?
• II. Methods, Monarchs, and Morals
• III. Two Pointed Questions
• IV. In Our Place and Time
• V. Preparing for Christ's Arrival and Return
• VI. Christmas Day, 2019
• VII. Decisive Event
• VIII. It's Only a Matter of Time
• IX. Who Can Rob Christ?
• X. Retrieve, Rediscover, Restore, or Reclaim?
• XI. Narratives, Propositions, and an Urgent Request
• XII. Time, Boredom, Procrastination, and Other Luxuries
• XIII. Manners, Worship, and Justice
• XIV. Controversies, Optimism, and Pessimism
• XV. Crisis
• Chastisement or Illumination?
• XVI. Sorrows Old and New, Near and Far
• XVII. Friends and Dilemmas True and False
• XVIII. Finding Hope between Presumption and Despair

• XIX. Gratitude, Memory, Hope, Purpose
• XX. J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, and the Prophet Isaiah
• XXI. Exciting Time to Be a Believer?
• XXII. Future Is Handmade?
• XXIII. Where Do Necessities and Luxuries Come From?
• XXIV. Roots and Fruits of Civility
• XXV. Works of Homes, Churches, and Schools
• XXVI. Who Will Lead? Who Will Follow?
• XXVII. What Was Noah Thinking?
• XXVIII. Past, Present, and Future of Hope
• XXIX. "I'm Dead
• Now What? (Christendom Edition)"
• XXX. Jesuit's First Look at the Benedict Option
• XXXI. "Flee. Be Silent. Pray Always." Why? How?
• XXXII. Beginning of the End? Or the End of the Beginning?
• XXXIII. Merely Human?
• XXXIV. Caesar, Court Jesters, and the Churchians
• XXXV. "You Can't Turn Back the Clock"
• XXXVI. Moving from "Christendom Lost" to "Christendom Found"
• XXXVII. Reconnections
• XXXVIII. Giving Our Past to Our Future
• XXXIX. First Principle and Foundation
• XL. Dangerous Liaisons of Church and State
• XLI. Great Ideas and Big Plans
• XLII. Four Strategies
• XLIII. Eight Principles
• XLIV. Hardest Question of All.

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Author/Creator:

McTeigue, Robert , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Christendom lost and found: meditations for a post post-Christian era [by McTeigue, R.]

Subjects:

Christian life — Catholic authors

Christian life — Meditations

Christianity — 21st century

Catholic Church — Apologetic works

General Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Call Numbers:

BX2350.3 .M38 2022eb

ISBNs:

9781642292565 (electronic bk.)
1642292567 (electronic bk.)
1621645932 [Invalid]
9781621645931 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

1369638667

Other Control Numbers:

EBC30344882 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp19327603