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Father Elijah by Michael O'Brien

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Father Elijah

An Apocalypse

Michael O'Brien, Kevin O'Brien, Ignatius Press

Ignatius Press · Print & ebook · November 1, 1997

Reading lane: Christian Futuristic Fiction

Michael O'Brien presents a thrilling apocalyptic novel about the condition of the Roman Catholic Church at the end of time.

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Reading lane: Christian Futuristic Fiction and Christian Allegory & Classics.Publisher: Ignatius Press.

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Authors
Michael O'Brien, Kevin O'Brien, Ignatius Press
Publisher
Ignatius Press
Published
November 1, 1997
Format
Print & ebook
Theme
Christian Futuristic Fiction · Christian Allegory & Classics
Reading lane
Christian Futuristic Fiction

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About This Book

Michael O'Brien presents a thrilling apocalyptic novel about the condition of the Roman Catholic Church at the end of time. It explores the state of the modern world, and the strengths and weaknesses of the contemporary religious scene, by taking his central character, Father Elijah Schafer, a Carmelite priest, on a secret mission for the Vatican which embroils him in a series of crises and subterfuges affecting the ultimate destiny of the Church.Father Elijah is a convert f...

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Michael O'Brien presents a thrilling apocalyptic novel about the condition of the Roman Catholic Church at the end of time. It explores the state of the modern world, and the strengths and weaknesses of the contemporary religious scene, by taking his central character, Father Elijah Schafer, a Carmelite priest, on a secret mission for the Vatican which embroils him in a series of crises and subterfuges affecting the ultimate destiny of the Church.Father Elijah is a convert from Judaism, a survivor of the Holocaust, a man once powerful in Israel. For twenty years he has been buried in the dark night of Carmel on the mountain of the prophet Elijah. The Pope and the Cardinal Secretary of State call him out of obscurity and give him a task of the highest sensitivity: to penetrate into the inner circles of a man whom they believe may be the Antichrist. Their purpose: to call the Man of Sin to repentance, and thus to postpone the great tribulation long enough to preach the Gospel to the whole world.In this richly textured tale, Father Elijah crosses Europe and the Middle East, moves through the echelons of world power, meets saints and sinners, presidents, judges, mystics, embattled Catholic journalists, faithful priests and a conspiracy of traitors within the very House of God. This is an apocalypse in the old literary sense, but one that was written in the light of Christian revelation.

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