People are both riveted and frightened by the way he demands attention. Everyone is fascinated with him, yet still no one knows much about him. Felsenburgh becomes the President of Europe, then of the world, by popular acclaim.
Under his leadership, East and West join. No one quite knows who he is or where he is from, but his voice mesmerizes. Julian Felsenburgh: An American Senator from Vermont. The lord of this nightmare world is a benign-looking politician intent on power in the name of “peace,” and intent on the destruction of religion in the name of “truth.” In such a world, only a small and defiant Church stands resolutely against the demonic “Lord of the World.” – Joseph Pearce ( click here) Characters: It is a world where euthanasia is practiced widely and religion hardly practiced at all. It is a world where philosophical relativism has triumphed over objectivity a world where, in the name of tolerance, religious doctrine is not tolerated. “The world depicted in Lord of the World is one where creeping secularism and Godless humanism have triumphed over religion and traditional morality. Boredom becomes a condition for recognizing our need for something more than this - a few more decades of life and then a total void.” – Ralph McInerny “The novel wonderfully conveys the flatness and boredom of a world without God. Ruled by the Anti-Christ who becomes ‘Lord of the World’, the seeming end of Christianity ushers in the end of the world. Summary: Lord of the World is a 1907 apocalyptic novel that describes a future where faith in God and religion has been replaced by advancement in technology (mass communication, rapid transport, air travel, weapons of mass destruction) & secular humanism (“Man = God”). Whether I have succeeded in that attempt is quite another matter.” I have tried, however, not to scream unduly loud, and to retain, so far as possible, reverence and consideration for the opinions of other people. But I did not know how else to express the principles I desired (and which I passionately believe to be true) except by producing their lines to a sensational point. “I am perfectly aware that this is a terribly sensational book, and open to innumerable criticisms on that account, as well as on many others. In his introduction to this novel, Benson remarks:
He was ordained a Catholic priest in 1904 and named a Monsignor in 1911. After many years of questioning and soul-searching he was received into the Roman Catholic Church in 1903. In 1895, he was ordained a priest in the Church of England by his father who was then Archbishop of Canterbury. The Author: Robert Hugh Benson (1871-1914) was the youngest son of Edward White Benson, Archbishop of Canterbury, and younger brother of Edward Frederic Benson.
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