When Rod Dreher's book The Benedict Option was published it produced two reactions.
The first was from people who were immediately convinced by his analysis that the long-inhabited place of the Church in the public square could no longer be taken for granted. In fact, it was worse than that: the Christian value system was being steadily repudiated and had lost all traction because the Christian vision of society had been lost by the population. They looked at the world in a totally different way.
