Jordan Cooper

Building the Benedict Option

Church Leadership & Ministry

“Rod Dreher’s The Benedict Option stirred much conversation around the role of Christian community in an increasingly secular culture. Despite such prevalent discourse, however, not many communities have arisen to actually accomplish what Dreher challenged the church to do. We have needed a clear guidebook that delivers the specifics of how one can put these ideas into action. In Building the Benedict Option, Ward Davis does exactly this. Through a broad discussion of theology, sociology, and architecture, Davis provides an invaluable guide for the establishment of Christian communities.”

The Rise of Bishops

History & Biography

“Brattston provides a valuable resource for the church . . . . He convincingly demonstrates that the hierarchical episcopate of the medieval era was not based upon clear directives handed down by apostolic authority to the Roman pontiff, but that it instead resulted gradually from particular historical circumstances that the church found itself in in the later patristic era. Brattston’s work presents a challenge to the simplistic narrative of episcopal continuity promoted by Roman Catholic apologists.”