In Living Faithfully in a Fragmented World: From 'After Virtue' to a New Monasticism, 2nd ed., Jonathan R. Wilson agrees with the evaluation offered by Scottish-American moral philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre in his After Virtue (1981): Western civilization is morally fragmented and characterized by a culture of “emotivism”. Wilson views the contemporary emergence of the phenomenon of neo-monasticism within the evangelical stream of the Western Church as hopeful. For Wilson, these St. Benedict-like ventures are responses of faithful living, with the potential to inspire and enable the Church’s witness within Western culture. This chapter critically interrogates Wilson’s confidence in neo-monasticism, contending that while the phenomenon of neo-monasticism may be interpreted as an example of faithful witness, concurrently, it can also be taken as a manifestation of the prevailing rationality and moral vision of neo-liberal capitalism.