01776nam a2200217 a 4500003000600000005001700006008004100023020001500064040003400079082003000113100003600143245004300179250001700222264005800239300001400297336002000311337001600331338001900347520116200366650003001528PUCPR20210518192657.0910312s19uu    nyu           00001 eng    a1587155850  aPUCPRbspaerdacPUCPRdPUCPR  a823.912223bB4742L Repr. 0aBenson, Robert Hughd1871-1914.10aLord of the world /cRobert H. Benson.  a[Reprinted].31aDoylestown, Pennylvania :bWilside Press,c[no date].  a254 pages  2rdacontentbtxt  2rdamediabn  2rdacarrierbnc3 a 	
Belief in God has been replaced by secular humanism in this gripping tale of the apocalypse. Protestantism is over, Catholicism is driven underground, and the Eastern religions have merged into a single pantheistic creed that poses an ongoing military threat to the West. Without a spiritual dimension to their lives, people are literally bored to death, choosing legal euthanasia rather than an empty existence. A charismatic leader arises amid this culture of despair, and in their eagerness for change, the citizens support the coming of the Antichrist and the end of days. One of the first works of modern dystopic fiction, this 1907 novel is remarkably prescient in its depiction of a technologically advanced society that rushes headlong toward its own destruction. Author Robert Hugh Benson, son of the Archbishop of Canterbury and a convert to Roman Catholicism, wrote this dark parable in response to the science-fiction novels of H.G. Wells, which portrayed utopian societies in terms of atheism and one-world government. The novel has been hailed as prophetic by Dale Ahlquist, Joseph Pearce, Pope Benedict XVI, and Pope Francis, among others. 0aEnd of the worldxFiction