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100		0	_aBenson, Robert Hugh _d1871-1914. _959998
245	1	0	_aLord of the world / _cRobert H. Benson.
250			_a[Reprinted].
264	3	1	_aDoylestown, Pennylvania : _bWilside Press, _c[no date].
300			_a254 pages
336			_2rdacontent _btxt
337			_2rdamedia _bn
338			_2rdacarrier _bnc
520	3		_a Belief in God has been replaced by secular humanism in this gripping tale of the apocalypse.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.
650		0	_991945 _aEnd of the world _xFiction
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