![]() ![]() Benson carefully explored the various passages on the endtimes included in Scripture and the teachings of the Church Fathers as background for this tale of the Antichrist. As we will see, before creating his fictional account, Msgr. ![]() ![]() It describes the final battle in the supernatural war for souls that has been fought continually both in heaven and on earth from the time of the Fall and will conclude with the general judgment thereupon will follow the creation of a new heaven and a new earth. Robert Hugh Benson's Lord of the World is a novel about the Antichrist, who will tempt Christians to apostasy before Christ's Second Coming. – Blessed John Henry Newman from "The Invisible World" All around us are numberless objects, coming and going, watching, working or waiting, which we see not: this is that other world, which the eyes reach not unto, but faith only. Introduction to Benson's "Lord of the World"įor our wrestling is not against flesh and blood but against principalities and powers, against the rulers of the world of this darkness, against the spirits of wickedness in the high places.Īnd yet in spite of this universal world which we see, there is another world, quite as farspreading, quite as close to us, and more wonderful another world all around us, though we see it not, and more wonderful than the world we see, for this reason if for no other, that we do not see it. ![]()
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