DEAR AND GLORIOUS PHYSICIAN A Novel About Saint Luke by TAYLOR CALDWELL

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Today St. Luke is known as the author of the third Gospel of the New Testament, but nearly two thousand years ago he was Lucanus, a  Greek, and a man of science. Taylor Cadwell portrays him as a man who loved, knew the emptiness of bereavement, and later traveled through the hills and wastes of Judea asking, "What manner of man is my Lord?" It is this Lucanus that Caldwell brings to life in her stirring novel. Caldwell’s own travels through the Holy Land and years of meticulous research make this book a fully developed portrait of a complex and brilliant man and a colorful re-creation of ancient Roman life as it contrasted in its decadence with the new world that Christianity was bringing into being. Paper.