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Title: Lord of the World by Robert Hugh Benson ISBN: 1-58715-585-0 Publisher: Wildside Press Pub. Date: January, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The Last of All
Comment: 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.
Rating: 5
Summary: An excellent edition of a classic book
Comment: This is an excellent edition of Benson's classic work. Unlike many other recent editions of Benson's books (Come Rack Come Rope, Oddsfish, etc.), this edition has not been abridged.
It is the story of the future world from a turn of the century vantage point. Protestantism has fizzled, the Mason's have triumphed, and Catholicism is on the defensive. The world has divided into three parties, and a silver tongued savior comes to save the day. Benson believed that armageddon would more likely result from smooth talking and twisted ideologies than from naked evil.
Although Benson may have over estimated the Masons and underestimated Protestants, he makes many surprisingly accurate predictions. The rhetoric used by the Bolshevists in Russia, the Nazi's in Germany, and the parties of the Spanish civil war was foreseen by Benson. The great white line Hitler painted around the Vatican and the Atomic bomb were also not beyond Benson's imagination.
Unfortunately, only a small audience will appreciate this book, but that audience should include all Catholics who take ideas and the modern threat seriously. This book helps explain the beauty of pre-Vatican II ceremonies without siding against the changes of Vatican II.
Rating: 5
Summary: The End of the World, Catholic Style!
Comment: 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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Title: Father Elijah: An Apocalypse by Michael O'Brien ISBN: 0898706904 Publisher: Ignatius Press Pub. Date: September, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: A Cry of Stone by Michael O'Brien ISBN: 0898708508 Publisher: Ignatius Press Pub. Date: February, 2004 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Turmoil & Truth: The Historical Roots of the Modern Crisis in the Catholic Church by Philip Trower ISBN: 0898709806 Publisher: Ignatius Press Pub. Date: October, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Triumph: The Power and the Glory of the Catholic Church: A 2,000-Year History by H. W. Crocker III ISBN: 0761529241 Publisher: Prima Lifestyles Pub. Date: 13 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: The Power and the Glory (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by Graham Greene, John Updike ISBN: 0142437301 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 25 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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