01966nam a2200265 a 4500 PUCPR 20210518192657.0 910312s19uu nyu 00001 eng 1587155850 PUCPR spa rda PUCPR PUCPR evl 823.912 23 B4742L Repr. 823.912 B4742L Repr. 23 Benson, Robert Hugh 1871-1914. 59998 Lord of the world / Robert H. Benson. [Reprinted]. Doylestown, Pennylvania : Wilside Press, [no date]. 254 pages rdacontent txt rdamedia n rdacarrier nc Belief in God has been replaced by secular humanism in this gripping tale of the apocalypse.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. 91945 End of the world Fiction ddc 6 823.912 B4742L Repr. 0 296084 296084 0 0 ddc 0 0 10 10 1 2019-09-19 Luis O. Jiménez Rodríguez 1 823.912 B4742L Repr. 80000002513441 2025-03-19 16:04:22 2025-03-17 2021-05-18 6