- Paperback: 312 pages
- Publisher: St. Augustines Press; 1 edition (Oct 15 1999)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1890318388
- ISBN-13: 978-1890318383
- Product Dimensions: 22.4 x 15 x 2.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 499 g
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,408,590 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Mr. Benson sees the world, four or five generations hence [this review was written in 1906], free at last from all minor quarrels, and ranged against itself in two camps, Humanitarianism for those who believe in no divinity but that of man, Catholicism for those who believe in no divinity but that of God." -- London Times
"The book as art is beautiful, delicately balanced, deeply inspired, intelligently executed." -- Putnam's
"Though it precedes them, the book is the genre of Orwell's 'Nineteen Eighty Four' and Huxley's 'Brave New World'." -- The Catholic Times, 20 January, 2002
"The book as art is beautiful, delicately balanced, deeply inspired, intelligently executed." -- Putnam's
"Though it precedes them, the book is the genre of Orwell's 'Nineteen Eighty Four' and Huxley's 'Brave New World'." -- The Catholic Times, 20 January, 2002
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In this profound and prescient novel, Monsignor Robert Hugh Benson gives an imaginative foretelling of the end of the world. All stories, Aristotle said, have a beginning, a middle, and an end, but most ends are relative, the terminus of a chain of acts or that. But what of the end that terminates all human action as we know it, the end of time itself, the Second Coming? Since this novel appeared in 1906, many others have been devoted to nuclear disaster, destructive comets, and other hair-raising possibilities. What sets Benson's story apart and makes it readable today
as when it was written is the Catholic and biblical context that provides the ultimate meaning.
as when it was written is the Catholic and biblical context that provides the ultimate meaning.
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A reason to overturn Vatican II,
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This review is from: Lord Of The World (Paperback)
Monsignor Benson has pre-empted the twentieth century in Catholic thought with this highly predictive novel. He outlines in 1907 the arguments that would prospectively overturn the Vatican II shift to secular humanism in the name of ecumenism. Where, as he writes, " the only God is man himself, the priests are the politicians and the prophets are the teachers". Does this sound familiar? A read for anyone wanting to really explore Faith, and real prayer.
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The Last of All,
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This review is from: Lord of the World (Paperback)
R.H. Benson wrote two mystical visions of the future. _The Dawn of All_ is an extremely romantic and improbable 1911 parable of a 1971 world mostly Catholic and at peace, ready for the Second Coming. _The Lord of the World_ came first, in 1907, and was a darker vision. A world of flying craft, major scientific advances, and comfort has become a place of materialist despair. Euthanasia is routine, for the desperately ill and the terminally bored. Oliver and Mabel Brand, a rising young couple, are the golden ones -- Oliver becomes a major political figure, but Mabel chooses the cool despairing end of legal euthanasia. Father Percy Franklin is one of the last Catholic priests in a world hostile to freedom, church, university, and history. Eventually elected the last Pope, he is restricted to the dusty forgotten village of Nazareth. Julian Felsenburgh is a charismatic American adventurer who means to and does become Lord of the World, anti-Christ. Details are less important than the very modern mood. Believing in progress as the only good, people are swept into any movement that promises it. The past is ruthlessly exterminated. The quest for one world government that begins with Esperanto ends with one world dictatorship.
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The End of the World, Catholic Style!,
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This review is from: Lord Of The World (Paperback)
As an evangelical with strong Catholic sympathies, I was excited to discover "Lord of the World" for another twist on the "Left Behind" scenario. The author writes at the dawn of the twentieth century and hits a few predictions about our world dead-on. But better yet is the sense of gravity Benson conveys in the novel. You really feel the earth coming to a conclusion, the ultimate clash of faith in God versus faith in Man.
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