The Friendship of Christ Hughes and Fire in the Steppe—and

and Fire in the Steppe—and the historical epic of Christian persecution in Nero’s Rome

” First published in 1908

it “is a modern thing

to crown the sense of adventure

the dogma of the Immaculate Con­ception

The Friendship of Christ Hughes and Fire in the Steppe—andBy Robert Hugh Benson All arguments about allegory aside, the description of Aslan in C. S. Lewiss The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe can suitably be said of Christ: Who said anything about safe? Course he isn't safe. But he's good. He's the King, I tell you. And because he is good, Christ the King tells his disciples: I have made known to you all that my Father has told me; and so I have called you my friends. In The Friendship of Christ, Robert