Robert Hugh Benson

Robert Hugh Benson ( born November 18, 1871 Wellington College, † October 19, 1914 in Salford ) was an English priest and writer. He is the fourth and youngest son of Edward White Benson, Chancellor of Lincoln Cathedral, and later Archbishop of Canterbury, and his wife Mary. He is the younger brother of Arthur Christopher Benson and Edward Frederic Benson.

Life

He was educated at Eton College and then studied theology and classical philology at Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1894 he was ordained a deacon and began the mission to preach at Eton in the East End of London in 1895. In the same year he was ordained by his father, a priest of the Church of England.

After the death of his father in 1896, he went to the family's request to Egypt. After his return he became vicar of Kemsing and the community sparked his interest in the theater. In 1898 he entered the Community of the Resurrection in Mirfield a house, a contemplative Anglican Order, which inspired by the Benedictine Rule was alive, but without the need to keep a solemn vow. He remained there until 1903.

Time he was also emerging spiritual doubts about the authority of the Anglican Church in his autobiographical essay Confessions of a Convert ( 1913) dar. This papal encyclical by Leo XIII. Apostolicae Curae reinforced doubts led to devotion to the Catholic faith. He entered on September 11, 1903 in the Roman Catholic Church and was ordained after successful studies at the seminary on June 12, 1904 in the Basilica of San Silvestro in Capite a priest in Rome. That same year, Benson returned to Cambridge.

Shortly after his ordination as Roman Catholic priest made Benson a passionate friendship with the similarly converted artist Frederick Rolfe. After two years in which letters were changed not only weekly, but sometimes daily basis, the relationship had reached an intimate, emotionally charged character, but remained chaste. All the letters were probably destroyed by the brother of EF Benson.

In 1907, Benson moved to a house on the Hare Street, from where he pursued an intense preaching, parish missions and spiritual direction. During this time, a large part of his extensive literary activity, which novels historical and contemporary content, spectacles and apologetic works falls comprises. In 1907 he wrote his most famous work, the ending novel Lord of the World ( The Lord of the World ), which underwent many editions and translations and is considered an important precursor of the great dystopian novels of the 20th century.

Pius X appointed him in 1911 to ( "surplus" ) confidential finance (now Pontifical honorary chaplain ).

In 1914, the first signs showed a heart condition and during a mission in Salford, he died in the house of the bishop in the early morning of October 19, 1914 of a heart attack as a result of pneumonia.

Works

Science fiction

  • A Mirror of Shalott
  • Lord of the World
  • Dawn of All

Historical fiction

  • By What Authority?
  • Come Rack! Come Rope! ( dt.Trotz torture and knitting! , 1926)
  • Initiation.
  • Oddsfish!
  • The King's Achievement (Sir I. Pitman and sons, ltd, 1908)
  • The History of Richard Raynal, Solitary

Contemporary fiction

  • The Light Invisible
  • The sentimentalists
  • The conventionalists
  • The Necromancers (B. Herder, 1909)
  • None Other Gods
  • The winnowing
  • Loneliness

Children's Books

  • Alphabet of Saints, with Reginald Balfour and Charles Ritchie (Burns, Oates & Washbourne, 1905)
  • A Child 's Rule of Life, illustratiert by Gabriel Pippet
  • Old Testament Rhymes, illustratiert by Gabriel Pippet

Devotional works

  • Friendship of Christ
  • Life in the World unseen
  • More About Life in the World Unseen
  • More Light
  • Facts
  • Here and Hereafter

Apologetic works

  • Confessions of a Convert ( dt Confessions of converts. 1914)
  • Religion of the Plain Man
  • Paradoxes of Catholicism
  • Papers of Pariah a
  • Christ in the Church: A Volume of Religious Essays. (Eng. Christ in the Church, 1913)

Plays

  • Cost of a crown, a Story of Douay & Durham; a Sacred Drama in Three Acts
  • A Mystery Play in Honour of the Nativity of Our Lord ( Longmans, Green, and Co., 1908)
  • The Upper Room, a drama of Christ 's passion
  • The Maid of Orleans, a drama of the life of Joan of Arc
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