The Dawn of the Great Apostasy
LECTURES ON THE ANTICHRIST FROM JOHN HENRY NEWMAN WITHIN
As in every generation, the “near future” approaches, never quite
materializing in ways we had imagined. Because of this, our perennial
temptation is to dismiss the teleology of history, and the eschatology
of revelation, as mental constructs produced by irrational fears or
limited by enflamed analyses of contemporary situations, a cycle that is
supposedly repeated without end, never delivering the promised
omni-catastrophe. Even so, according to Christ in the Gospels and the
Book of Revelation, and the letters of Sts. Peter, Paul, and John, and
the Old Testament prophets, as well as the ecclesially approved private
revelations that have increased in number and intensity for the past 150
years, the time is drawing near when all speculative scenarios will
evaporate in the face of a real and ultimate peril for mankind. Then the
future will become the present.
