Lord of the World

Robert Hugh Benson

ISBN 10: 1905574185 / ISBN 13: 9781905574186

Edité par Baronius Pr Ltd, 2006

May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. N° de réf. du vendeur G1905574185I4N00

Synopsis :

Book by Robert Hugh Benson

Présentation de l'éditeur: Described by Fulton Sheen as one of the three greatest depictions of the advent of the demonic in world literature, Lord of the World is science fiction with a difference. The West has succumbed to a sort of international socialism. The forces of secular materialism, relativism and state control are everywhere triumphant. Protestantism is no more, and Catholicism which had made some major advances in the first half of the twentieth century has been devastated by the development of new psychologies and the exodus of intellectuals in the wake of an Ecumenical Council. Euthanasia has become an instrument of the state, Esperanto the universal second language. Nevertheless, although organised religion has largely collapsed in the face of institutional secularism, a vague, humanistic religiosity militantly hostile to the exclusive and supernatural claims of the Church is present everywhere. Finally, the East, which has amalgamated into a single, pantheistic bloc, continues to pose a military threat. Enter Julian Felsenberg diplomat, scholar, guru, Antichrist...

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Lord of the World
Éditeur : Baronius Pr Ltd
Date d'édition : 2006
Reliure : Paperback
Etat : Very Good
Etat de la jaquette : No Jacket