In the sequel, Father Elijah’s mission to engage the Antichrist continues. Then came a moment when it was clear that I should write the book - and that the time was now. However, during the past few years, powerful images and scenes for the continuing story kept arising in my imagination, begging to be set down on paper. Though the idea of a sequel was often suggested to me by readers, I rejected it for many years. Did you intend from the beginning to write a sequel? Your book, Father Elijah: An Apocalypse, published 20 years ago, is a page-turner about the rise of the Antichrist and the efforts of Father Elijah, a Catholic monk, to change his mind and heart. 15, in an exchange with Register senior editor Joan Frawley Desmond, the author discussed his reasons for writing Elijah in Jerusalem and the spiritual and literary insights he has gained over the two decades following the publication of Father Elijah: An Apocalypse. He has also published a critique of contemporary children's stories that incorporate pagan symbols and themes, A Landscape With Dragons. The father of six children, O’Brien lives with his wife, Sheila, in Combermere, Canada. O’Brien’s other works of fiction that have been published by Ignatius Press include Sophia House, The Father’s Tale: A Novel and Theophilos. This is a celebration of God's desire for the human person to choose to love him through an act of free will and a cautionary tale for those tempted by the messianic visions spun by political ideologies of every age. The sequel to Father Elijah: An Apocalypse, a bestselling 1996 novel that followed a Catholic monk's quest to bring God's invitation to conversion to a powerful political leader who might be the Antichrist, this new work continues the author's exploration of the battle between good and evil in history and in the souls of individual men and women. Michael O’Brien, the Catholic novelist and artist, just published his latest work, Elijah in Jerusalem.
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