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Lord of the World
By Robert Hugh Benson
Published by Word on Fire September 11th, 2023
321 Pages | Hardcover | Size: 6"x9"
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What is Lord of the World about? 

Robert Hugh Benson’s Lord of the World delivers a stark warning of the dangers of secular humanism. Written in 1907, the novel chronicles the rise of the Antichrist in a dystopian future, where God has been abandoned and humanity itself has become the object of worship. Percy Franklin, one of the few Catholic priests left, finds himself putting everything on the line for the faith that is now a crime punishable by death.

Both Pope Benedict XVI and Pope Francis recognized the prophetic character of this novel, which depicts the ultimate consequences of a secular “new world order.” What promises peace and progress in reality brings only destruction and despair, and in the face of such evil can stand only one opponent: the Catholic Church.

Robert Hugh Benson 

Fr. Robert Hugh Benson (1871–1914) was a prominent Anglican cleric who gained fame in England for his conversion to Catholicism. Today, he is largely known for his prolific career as a fiction writer, and his dystopian classic Lord of the World is considered one of the first in its genre.

“There was no God but man, no priest 
but the politician, no prophet 
but the schoolmaster.”

Robert Hugh bENSON

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Haley Stewart is the Managing Editor of Word on Fire Spark and the author of The Grace of Enough, Jane Austen's Genius Guide to Life, and The Sister Seraphina Mysteries. She lives in Florida with her husband and four children.

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