5/10/2023 0 Comments Hugh benson lord of the world![]() ![]() We do so want to convince ourselves, don’t we, that we frail and limited humans know everything we need to know to be the boss, to run our own show, in the words of the New Atheists, to “create our own reality.” We look at our wonderful selves and say, those fatal words, “Who needs God?” A global version of the kind of catastrophe that routinely befell the unwise heroes of the ancient Greek myths, the ones whom the gods found guilty of hubris, that ancient and deadly human failing. ![]() It is the story of a society careening headlong into disaster. Lord of the World, though it has been completely forgotten by the secular world, is a famous and important book in other circles. It’s more than a mere pity that this movement was so rudely interrupted by… certain events in the Church and the world in the 60s. Robert Hugh Benson was a convert from the Anglican Church, in that group of early 20 th century English Catholic intellectual luminaries that were thought at the time to be the leaders of a new “springtime” for the Church in the English-speaking world. Were you all as amazed as I was to read all about the globalization of socialist, Marxist ideology, the rise of international anti-Christian policy-making bodies? The predictions about the mechanization and dehumanization of our societies? The institutionalization of what we now call the Culture of Death? Hands up everyone who has read Lord of the World, the classic apocalyptic novel by Robert Hugh Benson. ![]()
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