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Dear and Glorious Physician
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Two millennia ago, a Greek man known as Lucanus traveled to Alexandria to study medicine. He would become one of the greatest doctors of his time and heal the sick all throughout the Mediterranean world.
But his extraordinary work as a physician is not his greatest legacy. Today he is known around the world as St. Luke—author of the third Gospel of the New Testament. He never laid eyes on Jesus, but he heard about Christ's life and death, and saw God in Him. He retraced Jesus's steps and sought out those who had known Him—including His mother, Mary. The resulting account is a cornerstone of Christianity and world history.
From the celebrated author of
and
comes this stirring and deeply inspiring story, counted "among the bestselling religious novels of all time" (
).
"A portrait so moving and so eloquent I doubt it is paralleled elsewhere in literature." —
"Magnificent. . . . [Caldwell] has made St. Luke a real and believable man and recreated on a vast canvas the times and people of his day. You see as large as life all the glory and decadence of Rome and all the strife, turmoil and mysticism of Africa. . . . A glowing and passionate statement of belief." —
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“I read this in high school and decided to read again to see if it touched me as it had in high school. It did. Now as I read it I can see where it was a book written in the 60’s, some of the thought frames are different than now. Having said that, the stories told are based upon scripture in the Bible, and it had me scouring through scriptures to compare the story with the scriptures. It made these people— people, not plaster -perfect-saints. I appreciate that even more now than I did in high school. To realize these people went through much to learn about and be with Jesus simply because they believed prophecies hit. It’s a project, not a book you can/should get through in a weekend. Of course it’s fiction, but half way through I found myself believing everything in it as scripture😄. Taylor Caldwell was a researcher and stickler for detail, the research and knowledge she had still amazes me. She does describe many things in detail— that didn’t bother me as it does other people who have reviewed it. As I said, I went into it knowing it isn’t a quick read, it’s something that will transport you back to those days if you let it. Great book.”
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About Taylor Caldwell
Taylor Caldwell (1900–1985) was one of the most prolific and widely read authors of the twentieth century. Born Janet Miriam Holland Taylor Caldwell in Manchester, England, she moved with her family to Buffalo, New York, in 1907. She started writing stories when she was eight years old and completed her first novel when she was twelve. Married at age eighteen, Caldwell worked as a stenographer and court reporter to help support her family and took college courses at night, earning a bachelor of arts degree from the University of Buffalo in 1931. She adopted the pen name Taylor Caldwell because legendary editor Maxwell Perkins thought her debut novel,
(1938), would be better received if readers assumed it were written by a man. In a career that spanned five decades, Caldwell published forty novels, many of which were
bestsellers. Her best-known works include the historical sagas
(1957),
(1968),
(1972), and
(1976), and the spiritually themed novels
(1960) and
(1966).
(1958), a portrayal of the life of St. Luke, and
(1970), about the life of St. Paul, are among the bestselling religious novels of all time. Caldwell’s last novel,
(1981), hit the
bestseller list before its official publication date. She died at her home in Greenwich, Connecticut, in 1985.
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