Benson wurde am Eton College erzogen und studierte anschließend Theologie und Altphilologie am Trinity College in Cambridge. Im Jahre 1894 wurde er zum Diakon geweiht und begann in der Mission in Eton im East End Londons im Jahr 1895 zu predigen. Im selben Jahr wurde er von seinem Vater zum Priester der Kirche von England geweiht.Nach dem Tod seines Vaters im Jahre 1896 ging er auf Wunsch der Familie nach Ägypten. Nach seiner Rückkehr wurde er Vikar in Kemsing und die Gemeinde weckte sein Interesse für das Theater. Im Jahr 1898 trat er in das Haus der Gemeinschaft der Auferstehung in...
Benson wurde am Eton College erzogen und studierte anschließend Theologie und Altphilologie am Trinity College in Cambridge. Im Jahre 1894 wurde er z...
The History of Richard Raynal, Solitary is a historical novel by Robert Hugh Benson. It depicts the life of Richard Raynal, an English recluse, whose silent life is disrupted by a vision he translates as a call from God.
The History of Richard Raynal, Solitary is a historical novel by Robert Hugh Benson. It depicts the life of Richard Raynal, an English recluse, whose ...
Come Rack! Come Rope! is a historical novel by the English priest and writer Robert Hugh Benson. Benson was a convert to Catholicism from Anglicanism. He set the plot of his novel in Derbyshire at the time of the Elizabethan persecution of Catholics. At those times, being or harboring a Catholic priest was considered treason and was punishable by death. The book tells the story of two young lovers. They give up their chance of happiness together for their beliefs and are ready to meet the challenges of the time so that God's will may be done.
Come Rack! Come Rope! is a historical novel by the English priest and writer Robert Hugh Benson. Benson was a convert to Catholicism from Anglicanism....
"Lord of the World" is a 1907 dystopian science fiction novel by Benson that centers upon the reign of the Antichrist and the end of the world. The novel imagines a socialist and humanist world where religion has been suppressed or ignored. People have no history or hope, so they often turn to euthanasia, a legal and widespread practice. This world has a "one-world" government that uses Esperanto for its language and ultimately becomes a servant of the anti-Christ. In brief: The Catholic Church has been suppressed by the rest of the world, which has turned to the religion of humanity modeled...
"Lord of the World" is a 1907 dystopian science fiction novel by Benson that centers upon the reign of the Antichrist and the end of the world. The no...
Paradoxes of Catholicism is a book by Robert Hugh Benson. It provides a collection of essays relating to the authors' adaptation and conversion to Catholicism and subsequent priesthood.
Paradoxes of Catholicism is a book by Robert Hugh Benson. It provides a collection of essays relating to the authors' adaptation and conversion to Cat...
L'on m'a dit que j'étais devenu catholique parce que je me laissais abattre sous l'échec, et parce que je me laissais exalter sous le succès ; parce que j'étais trop rempli d'imagination, et parce que je manquais du sens de l'observation ; parce que je n'avais pas assez de confiance dans les choses, et parce que j'en avais trop ; parce que j'étais trop ardent à espérer, et trop prompt au désespoir ; parce que j'étais orgueilleux et pusillanime. Plusieurs ont même dit, en présence de mes livres, que je n'avais jamais vraiment compris l'Église d'Angleterre.
L'on m'a dit que j'étais devenu catholique parce que je me laissais abattre sous l'échec, et parce que je me laissais exalter sous le succès ; parc...
