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LTRP Note:<\/strong> This is another example of a major Christian leader laying aside the integrity of biblical faith and giving credence to the Roman Catholicism and contemplative mysticism for the sake of “unity” and “morality.”<\/p>\n

By Cathy Mickel<\/strong>
\n (Author of Spiritual Junk Food: The Dumbing Down of Christian Youth<\/em>)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Where is the wisdom in Albert Mohler, president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, giving air time\u00a0to Rod Dreher, the author of The Benedict Option <\/em>(a book highlighting the way of\u00a0Saint Benedict,\u00a0Catholic “saint” and founder of the\u00a0monastic Benedictine order)? (Other evangelical leaders who support the book are Matt Chandler; https:\/\/twitter.com\/villagechurchtx\/status\/839994280101961729<\/a>, \u00a0Russell Moore; http:\/\/www.russellmoore.com\/2017\/03\/10\/signposts-conversation-rod-dreher\/<\/a>,\u00a0\u00a0and John Piper;\u00a0https:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnPiper\/status\/839647675364622336<\/a> )<\/p>\n

In the interview, Mohler says, “[T]he book is very important. I want to commend it to every thinking Christian. We ought to read this book and we ought also to read far beyond the title.” (http:\/\/www.albertmohler.com\/2017\/02\/13\/benedict-option-conversation-rod-dreher)<\/a><\/p>\n

The following are a few quotes from what the author of The<\/em> Benedict Option<\/em> said to Albert Mohler in the interview.<\/a><\/p>\n

[T]he West owes an incalculable debt to those Benedictine monks<\/em>.<\/p>\n

So this is nothing new. We\u2019re just rediscovering an old tradition,<\/em> things that our ancestors knew. And look, I think that whether we\u2019re evangelical, Catholic, or Orthodox, we need to go back to the early church to see how our ancestors did it, see what they did, see how they embodied the faith and culture and practices [contemplative prayer].<\/p>\n

. . . time for Christians to take seriously the times we\u2019re in, to read the signs of the times and to respond in a responsible way, in a clear way, in a patient way. And I use Saint Benedict of Nursia [considered the “father of western monasticism”<\/a>], the 6th century saint, who was a Christian who lived through the fall of the Roman Empire; he was born four years after the Empire officially fell. And he went down to Rome to get his education and saw it was completely corrupt, it was falling apart. He went out to the woods to pray; he lived in cave for three years, and asked God to show him what to do with his life. He ended up coming out and founding a monastic order. That monastic order he founded ended up over the next few centuries spreading like wildfire throughout Western Europe. And what they did was prepare the way for civilization to return to Western Europe. They tendered within those monasteries the Scriptures, the prayers, the liturgies, and the old ways of doing things. So they became a sort of ark that traveled over the dark sea of time until it found dry land, and there was light after the darkness.” [see John Caddock’s article “Brennan Manning\u2019s \u201cNew Monks\u201d & Their Dangerous Contemplative Monasticism”] <\/a><\/p>\n

One of the stories I tell in the book is about going to the Benedictine monastery in Norcia, a small town in the mountains of central Italy, that was where say Benedict was born. He was a son of the Roman governor. Well, there\u2019s still a monastery there today. Napoleon closed it down in 1810, but in the year 2000 some American monks went there and reopened it. And they wanted to sing the traditional Latin mass,<\/em> and it\u2019s become a real oasis of Christian peace and beauty. Well, it\u2019s the sort of place where you go there up in the mountains, and you really envy these men, their peace, where they can worship and meet visitors.<\/p>\n

[I]n my own case, my life is shaped around liturgy<\/em> that\u2019s been in our church for 1500 years. My life is shaped around the chanting of Psalms and on all kinds of sensual ways that embody the faith.<\/em> Of course you can have smells and bells and go straight to hell, that doesn\u2019t change you and lead to greater conversion. But for me as an Orthodox Christian and me as a Catholic<\/em>, the faith had more traction and it drew me in closer and closer. (emphasis added)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Here is Amazon’s description of Benedict Option:<\/em><\/p>\n

In a radical new vision for the future of Christianity, NYT bestselling author and conservative columnist Rod Dreher calls on American Christians to prepare for the coming Dark Age by embracing an ancient Christian way of life<\/em> [contemplative prayer] . . .
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

In\u00a0The Benedict Option,\u00a0<\/em>Dreher calls on traditional Christians to learn from the example of St. Benedict of Nursia<\/em>, a sixth-century monk who turned from the chaos and decadence of the collapsing Roman Empire, and found a new way to live out the faith in community. For five difficult centuries, Benedict’s monks kept the faith alive through the Dark Ages, and prepared the way for the rebirth of civilization. What do ordinary 21st century Christians — Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox<\/em> — have to learn from the teaching and example of this great spiritual father<\/em>? That they must read the signs of the times, abandon hope for a political solution to our civilization’s problems, and turn their attention to creating resilient spiritual centers<\/em> that can survive the coming storm. Whatever their Christian traditio<\/em>n, they must draw on the secrets of Benedictine wisdom<\/em> to\u00a0build up the local church, create countercultural schools based on the classical tradition<\/em>, rebuild family life, thicken communal bonds, and develop survival strategies for doctors, teachers, and others on the front lines of persecution. . . .<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Added section from Lighthouse Trails editors\u2014Here are a few quotes from the book, The Benedict Option:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Imagine that you are at a Catholic mass in a dreary 1970s-era suburban church that looks like a converted Pizza Hut. The next Sunday you are at a high Catholic mass in New York City, at St. Patrick\u2019s Cathedral. The Scripture reading is the same in both places, and Jesus is just as present in the Eucharist<\/em> at Our Lady of Pizza Hut as at St. Patrick\u2019s. Chances are, though, that you had to work harder to conjure a sense of the true holiness of the mass in the suburban church than in the cathedral\u2014though theologically speaking, the \u201cinformation\u201d conveyed in Word and Sacrament in both places was the same. This is the difference liturgy can make. (Dreher, Rod. The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation, <\/em>pp. 106-107, Penguin Publishing Group; emphasis added)<\/p>\n

I told the priest how, in response to a personal crisis, my own orthodox priest back in Louisiana had assigned me a strict daily prayer rule, praying the Jesus Prayer<\/em> (\u201cLord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner\u201d) for about an hour each day. It was dull and difficult at first, but I did it out of obedience. Every day, for a seemingly endless hour, silent prayer. In time, though, the hour seemed much shorter, and I discovered that the peace I had conspicuously lacked in my soul came forth. (The Benedict Option<\/em>, p. 59)<\/p>\n

For the monks, prayer is not simply words they speak. Each monk spends several hours daily doing lectio divina<\/a>, a Benedictine method of Scripture study that involves reading a Scripture passage, meditating on it, praying about it, and finally contemplating its meaning for the soul. (The Benedict Option, pp. 58-59)<\/p>\n

The Reformation broke the religious unity<\/em> [with Rome] of Europe. In Protestant lands, it birthed an unresolvable crisis in religious authority, which over the coming centuries would cause unending schisms. The Benedict Option<\/em>, p. 45, emphasis added)<\/p>\n

If you don\u2019t control your own attention, there are plenty of people eager to do it for you. The first step in regaining cognitive control is creating a space of silence<\/em> in which you can think. During a deep spiritual crisis in my own life, the toxic tide of chronic anxiety did not began to recede from my mind until my priest ordered me to take up a daily rule of contemplative prayer<\/em>. Stilling my mind for an hour of prayer<\/em> was incredibly difficult, but it eventually opened up a beachhead in which the Holy Spirit could work to calm the stormy waters within.\u00a0 (The Benedict Option<\/em>, pp. 227-228, emphasis added)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In a 2017 Christianity Today<\/em> article titled, “The Benedict Option’s Vision for a Christian Village” by Rod Dreher, author of The Benedict Option<\/em>, Dreher says the following. Our deciphering is in brackets:<\/p>\n

\n

I have written The Benedict Option<\/em> to wake up the church, and to encourage it to act to strengthen itself [unify by removing the barriers between Protestantism and Catholicism], while there is still time. If we want to survive, we have to return to the roots of our faith [not biblical roots, monastic roots of the desert fathers and other mystics], both in thought and in deed. We are going to have to learn habits of the heart [contemplative prayer practices – Nouwen called it moving from the moral (doctrine) to the mystical] forgotten by believers in the West [that’s what Merton taught]. We are going to have to change our lives, and our approach to life, in radical ways. In short, we are going to have to be the church, without compromise, no matter what it costs [the cost is going to be the death of biblical truth]. (source<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

These remarks by Dreher are reminiscent of the contemplative pioneer and disciple of Thomas Merton, Richard Foster, when he said: “I see a Catholic monk from the hills of Kentucky standing alongside a Baptist evangelist from the streets of Los Angeles and together offering up a sacrifice of praise. I see a people.” (Richard Foster, Streams of Living Water, <\/em>San Francisco, CA: Harper, 1998, p. 273) We need not look very far to know how such an ecumenical unifying will take place. The contemplative prayer movement is the vehicle, and it is in our midst waiting for the unaware and undiscerning to hop on for the ride.<\/p>\n

One can only wonder, will there be any Christian leaders left standing when the battle is over?\u00a0 Remember the words of Jesus when He said,<\/p>\n

[W]hen the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth? (Luke 18:8)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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