Spencer A. Klavan

Living in Wonder

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“of energy—is pervasive enough that it has become a source of exhaustion in itself. We are weary of being wearied, bored of the end of the world. But Rod Dreher’s Living in Wonder is apocalyptic in the true and costly sense of the word. Which is to say it is a revelation. The light hasn’t been sapped out of the world, Dreher suggests, but out of us—by our distractions, by our technological ambitions, by the dull ache of our compulsive pleasures. “As a man is, so he sees,” wrote William Blake. Our highest imperative is to relearn how to really look and really see. Dreher walks with us as a fellow novice alongside unassuming masters of this sacred practice: miraculously rescued former addicts, impish mystics disguised as lawyers, grateful survivors of demonic possession. Like all works of true religion, this book is not a didactic exercise in moralism but an adventure into endless mystery, an escape route from the dreary certainties of the disenchanted world.”