![]() ![]() "Interesting it must be to all to whom the deepest convictions of a man's heart are of moment. Note: In this edition (ISBN 1507790503), Latin phrases are translated in footnotes. The plot follows a priest, Father Percy Franklin, who finds himself caught up in the final and increasingly open struggle between Antichrist and Christ. Meanwhile, a mysterious figure of apparent hope, Julian Felsenburgh, rises to become the head of a single world government. The populace turns toward euthanasia as the solution to bodily pain and spiritual crisis. ![]() The Catholic Church, confined to ghettos, occupies an increasingly perilous position in the public square. Religion is either suppressed or ignored. Humanism has eliminated world conflict but practices a subtle barbarism upon the human mind. One of Pope Francis's favorite novels, Benson's 1907 apocalyptic tale of the Antichrist is one of the first modern dystopias. Beautifully re-typeset with all Latin passages newly translated in notes. ![]() Lord of the World, by Robert Hugh Benson. ![]()
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