Robert Jenson ( Essays in Theology of Culture ) gives this clever summary of the work of Alasdair McIntyre: “MacIntyre ended [After Virtue] by saying that what our civilization must have to survive is something like the Benedictine order.  Many who read this wondered how there could be Benedictines without St. Benedict, or a saint without God.  MacIntyre appears to have read his own book and wondered the same things, whereupon he reconverted to the faith.”