{"id":40108,"date":"2017-02-25T21:35:09","date_gmt":"2017-02-26T04:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=40108"},"modified":"2017-02-25T21:54:18","modified_gmt":"2017-02-26T04:54:18","slug":"mormons-benedict-option","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2017\/02\/mormons-benedict-option.html","title":{"rendered":"More on Mormons and the &#8220;Benedict Option&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_40109\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40109\" style=\"width: 391px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2017\/02\/Convent_of_St_Gall.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-40109\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-40109\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2017\/02\/Convent_of_St_Gall.jpg\" alt=\"Kathedrale Sankt Gallen\" width=\"391\" height=\"590\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-40109\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Benedictine Abbey of St. Gall (or St. Gallen) in Switzerland is one of the most historically significant religious and cultural centers in that indescribably wonderful country. \u00a0(Wikimedia Commons public domain)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I posted an item yesterday on the extraordinarily interesting and provocative notion of Rod Dreher\u2019s proposed \u201cBenedict Option\u201d and how it might be relevant to Latter-day Saint thinking:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2017\/02\/mormons-choose-benedict-option.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cShould Mormons Choose the Benedict Option?\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The occasion for my blog entry was an article by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/deseret-news-names-new-opinion-editor-300311660.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Hal Boyd<\/a> of the <em>Deseret News.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Now, Rod Dreher himself responds to Hal Boyd\u2019s article:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/dreher\/mormons-the-benedict-option\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u201cMormons &amp; The Benedict Option\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And, while we\u2019re at it, here\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/mereorthodoxy.com\/benedict-option-reviewers\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">another examination of the \u201cBenedict Option\u201d<\/a>\u00a0(from a non-LDS perspective, as most responses have been and will be):<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/mereorthodoxy.com\/benedict-option-reviewers\/<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 I posted an item yesterday on the extraordinarily interesting and provocative notion of Rod Dreher\u2019s proposed \u201cBenedict Option\u201d and how it might be relevant to Latter-day Saint thinking: \u00a0 \u201cShould Mormons Choose the Benedict Option?\u201d \u00a0 The occasion for my blog entry was an article by Hal Boyd of the Deseret News. \u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>More on Mormons and the &quot;Benedict Option&quot;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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