Elijah in Jerusalem: A Novel, by Michael O'Brien
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Elijah in Jerusalem: A Novel, by Michael O'Brien
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Elijah in Jerusalem,the long-awaited sequel to the acclaimed, best-selling novel Father Elijah: An Apocalypse,is the continuing story of the Catholic priest called to confront a powerful politician who could be the Antichrist foretold in the Bible.
A convert from Judaism, a survivor of the Holocaust, and a participant in the founding of Israel, Father Elijah was for decades a monk on Mount Carmel, the mountain made famous by his Old Testament prophet-namesake. In the events of the preceding novel, the Pope commissioned Father Elijah to meet the President of the European Union, a man rising toward global control as President of the soon- to-be realized World Government. Recognizing in the President a resemblance to the anticipated Antichrist, the Pope asked Father Elijah to call the President to repentance, a mission that ended in failure.
In this sequel, now-Bishop Elijah, wanted for a murder he did not commit, tries again to meet the President. Accompanied by his fellow monk Brother Enoch, he enters Jerusalem just as the President arrives in the holy city to inaugurate a new stage of his rise to world power. This time Elijah hopes to unmask him as a spiritual danger to mankind. As the story unfolds, people of various backgrounds meet the fugitive priest, and in the encounter their souls are revealed and tested.
Elijah perseveres in his mission even when all seems lost. The dramatic climax is surprising, yet it underlines that God works all things to the good for those who love him.
Elijah in Jerusalem: A Novel, by Michael O'Brien - Amazon Sales Rank: #77119 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-10-05
- Released on: 2015-10-05
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Elijah in Jerusalem: A Novel, by Michael O'Brien Review "Elijah in Jerusalem takes the reader on a journey through Christianity's ancestral heartlands that is at times both moving and terrifying. Michael O'Brien's spiritual epic holds up a mirror to the moral chaos of the contemporary world without depriving the reader of hope." --Fiorella De Maria, Author, Poor Banished Children"Elijah in Jerusalem is one of O'Brien's best-crafted books, a fast-moving, suspenseful page-turner adorned with lyrical graces and moments of joy which alternate with stark terror and evocations a powerful presence of evil so palpable that it will prompt sober reflection on our troubled times." --David Lyle Jeffrey, Ph.D. Distinguished Professor of Literature and the Humanities, Baylor University"The story of Father Elijah, who fights against the most misleading forms of evil with the weapons of Christ—courage, humility, charity—will appeal to anyone who is in search of heroism and truth. A thrilling novel full of deep intelligence and spirituality, tenderness and beauty." -- Astrid de Larminat, Le Figaro newspaper
About the Author
Michael D. O'Brien, iconographer, painter, and writer, is the popular author of many best-selling novels including Father Elijah, The Father's Tale, Eclipse of the Sun, Sophia House, Theophilos, and Island of the World. His novels have been translated into twelve languages and widely reviewed in both secular and religious media in North America and Europe.
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24 of 25 people found the following review helpful. Thoughtful and illuminating By Victoria Randall This is the sequel to Father Elijah, an Apocalypse, which was a spiritual/political thriller. In that book, Father Elijah was asked by the Pope to confront the President of the European Union and urge him to repent. He failed in that mission, but it’s the attempt that was important.Elijah in Jerusalem takes up where the previous book ended, with now Bishop Elijah and his friend Brother Enoch walking into Jerusalem. Elijah, wanted for a murder he didn’t commit, is attempting to renew the mission given him by the Holy Father, to call the most powerful and admired man on earth to repentance. He is the Man of Sin, on track to become president of the coming World Government, and appears to some to be the Antichrist. This is the story of Elijah’s attempt to do the will of God, his struggles with his own fears and doubts, and the people he meets in his journey.It is not as exciting or suspenseful as Father Elijah, and not nearly as long, but it says all that needs to be said. As the author says in the Preface, it is not meant to be an accurate prediction of coming events, of how the end times will play out. Instead its primary mission is to awaken the reader’s imagination, to recall him to basic principles of life in Christ. In the trials and events and people Elijah meets, he like other messengers, is “a living word, a sign of contradiction and of consolation.”Meditative and beautifully written, full of darkness, evil, grief and also hope and courage and perseverance, it is a book that will be treasured by anyone wishing to draw closer to the spirit of Christ.
22 of 23 people found the following review helpful. A good, Catholic story By Norm der Ploume I very much like Mr. O'Brien 's books. This book had the usual characteristics of Mr. O'Brien's other works: it is an enjoyable read, reliably Catholic and Orthodox in its anthropology, contains spiritual insights that, as an other reviewer already stated, invites one to be better. This is no small task and I appreciated the book.I also found the book to be a bit derivative of even his own writing. There were passages that I was sure I had read before in his other works, slightly recycled/refurbished.At times, I found his writing to fall into that device that one sometimes encounters in Walker Percy novels, where the characters really deliver an essay in the author's voice about, in this case, the perils of contemporary, modernist, american Catholicism.Again, an enjoyable read, but my personal preference is for his achievement of Island of the World
19 of 21 people found the following review helpful. Not his finest effort By Scott Woltze I've read Father Elijah at least twice, and share the author's worldview down to the last dot. In reading this book, I got the impression that the author felt an urgent need to speak/comfort his audience about our dark days. That's well and good. The problem is that the book sometimes reads like a collection of essays, whereby he used a fictional setting and characters to explore his thoughts. In other words, it's episodic and lacks the powerful narrative of "Fr. Elijah". It's also didactic, which is not a virtue in fiction.As another reviewer noted, some of the characters and dialogue seemed derivative from his earlier works. Worse yet, too many of the characters were larger than life with impossible-to-believe back stories. Two different characters essentially consecrate themselves to the devil (the turtle blood/rape scene and the pornographer/child sacrifice) and go on to enjoy astounding success. In fact, most satanist types are on the very outskirts of society--what one would call "losers". Another major character, Karin, is one of the wealthiest women in the world. Of all the people in Israel/Palestine, why does God send Elijah to try to convert the fabulously wealthy (Karin, Viktor)? For my part, I would prefer less sensational characters. Ordinary people are also fascinating once you scratch the surface.Which brings up the next problem: the characters are essentially two-dimensional puppets for the author to catechize his audience. None of the "fallen" characters actually come to life. There are none of those idiosyncrasies and telling little details that constitute real people in real life. It's all programmatic and telegraphed. The Irish "mystic" character is particularly wooden. There are also caricatures sprinkled about--like the American tourists in Israel who demand the falafel vendor use latex gloves. Groan.Some of the flaws in this book have surfaced--if only for a scene or two--in "Fr. Elijah" and elsewhere. Now they've been allowed to roam throughout the book. I earnestly hope that the author finds more restraint in his craft. His writing can be brilliant and profound when he's at his best. He has recently said he's going to take a break from writing to focus on painting.
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