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"The strongest of all Father Benson's books.... There is no denying the strength and sincerity of the book, nor the force of its downright insistence upon the necessity or expelling the excesses of sentimentalism from the character.... A strongly worded but clean-minded exposure of one side of contemporary national life."--_Daily Telegraph._
"The characterisation is always admirable. It is full of humour and shrewd observation, and it is never dull. It is a distinct advance on its author's previous works, and places him high in the rank of contemporary novelists."--_Morning Post._
"One of the most subtle studies in the psychology of egotism which have been written since Meredith's masterpiece."--_Tribune._
"A full-length portrait of a poseur.... We have encountered, nothing better in its way than this merciless analysis of the psychology of the histrionic temperament."--_Spectator._
"Mr. Benson gives in Christopher Dell a very careful study of a temperament, drawn with much truth and discernment.... The minor characters are extremely good, and so, indeed, are all the accessories of the story, the descriptions, the setting of the scenes, and so forth."--_Times._
In this novel the author attempts to trace what he believes will be the future situation in the religious world, placing the date of his book in the twenty-first century. Briefly stated, the _motif_ is that religious thought is converging into two main camps--Humanitarianism and Supernaturalism. Humanitarianism, or, rather, a kind of Pantheism, seems to him to be the inevitable outcome of modern tendencies of thought as severed from dogmatic Christianity; and, on the other side, he attempts to show that the Church must, sooner or later, become the home of all who believe in the Supernatural at all.
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"Contains fifteen narratives of visions or incidents put into the mouth of a saintly old Catholic priest.... It is written in a style in harmonious keeping with its mystic tone, and there are several scenes of striking pathos."--_The Manchester Guardian._
"It is impossible to appraise in the ordinary terms of criticism a book which appeals to us so strongly as 'The Light Invisible.' Its delicate, elusive mysticism, its deep spirituality, exercise upon the sympathetic reader an irresistible charm, which can hardly be analysed or defined."--_Church Times._