Robert Hugh Benson
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ROBERT HUGH BENSON COLLECTION [11 BOOKS] — Quality Formatting and Value — Active Index, Multiple Table of Contents for all Books — Multiple Illustrations Robert Hugh Benson AFSC (18 November 1871 – 19 October 1914) was an English Anglican priest who in 1903 was received into the Roman Catholic Church in which he was ordained priest in 1904. He was lauded in his own day as one of the leading figures in English literature, having written the notable novel Lord of the World (1907). Benson was the youngest son of Edward White Benson (Archbishop of Canterbury) and his wife, Mary, and the younger brother of Edward Frederic Benson and A. C. Benson. Benson was educated at Eton College and then studied classics and theology at Trinity College, Cambridge, from 1890 to 1893. In 1895, Benson was ordained a priest in the Church of England by his father, who was the then Archbishop of Canterbury. After his father died suddenly in 1896, Benson was sent on a trip to the Middle East to recover his own health. While there he began to question the status of the Church of England and to consider the claims of the Roman Catholic Church. His own piety began to tend toward the High Church tradition, and he started exploring religious life in various Anglican communities, eventually obtaining permission to join the Community of the Resurrection. —BOOKS— BY WHAT AUTHORITY? COME RACK! COME ROPE! DAWN OF ALL LORD OF THE WORLD LOURDES NONE OTHER GODS ODDSFISH! PARADOXES OF CATHOLICISM THE HISTORY OF RICHARD RAYNAL SOLITARY THE KING’S TRIUMPH THE NECROMANCERS PUBLISHER: AETERNA PRESS