Kindle: Just as the first coming of the Lord had its precursor, "so will the second," John Henry Newman said in four memorable sermons. If the first forerunner was Saint John the Baptist, the second will be much "more than an enemy of Christ, he will be the same image of Satan, the terrifying Antichrist".
Newman's insights sound as if they were written today. In his lectures preached in the form of Sermons in Advent 1835, John Henry Newman warned that the naive Satan "promises civil liberty, promises equality, promises trade and wealth, promises reforms." He "makes fun of past times and all the institutions that represent them." And Newman went even further when he announced that there would be a real or fictitious "display of miracles", which could be "discoveries of science", which would strengthen the power of the Antichrist. Surely these words resonate with us today considering the world’s wide road in the 21st century.
This classic work includes the following lectures:
I. The Times of Antichrist
II. The Religion of Antichrist
III. The City of Antichrist
IV. The Persecution of Antichrist
About the author: John Henry Newman CO (1801-1890) was an English theologian, academic, intellectual, philosopher, polymath, historian, writer, scholar and poet, first as an Anglican priest and later as a Catholic priest and cardinal, who was an important and controversial figure in the religious history of England in the 19th century. He was known nationally by the mid-1830s and was canonised as a saint in the Catholic Church in 2019. He is the fifth saint of the City of London, after Thomas Becket (born in Cheapside), Thomas More (born on Milk Street), Edmund Campion (son of a London bookseller) and Polydore Plasden (of Fleet Street). (Source: Wikipedia)
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