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    Dear and Glorious Physician: A Novel about Saint Luke
    Dear and Glorious Physician: A Novel about Saint Luke
    Dear and Glorious Physician: A Novel about Saint Luke
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    Dear and Glorious Physician: A Novel about Saint Luke

    Written by Taylor Caldwell

    Narrated by Paul Boehmer

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    From Taylor Caldwell, the world-famous novel about the triumphant story of St. Luke, man of science and Gospel writer

    Lucanus grew up in the household of his stepfather, the Roman governor of Antioch. After studying medicine in Alexandria he became one of the greatest physicians of the ancient world and traveled far and wide through the Mediterranean region healing the sick. As time went on he learned of the life and death of Christ and saw in Him the God he was seeking. To find out all he could about the life and teachings of Jesus, whom he never saw, Lucanus visited all the places where Jesus had been, questioning everyone-including His mother, Mary-who had known Him or heard Him preach. At last, when he had gathered all information possible, he wrote down what we now know as the Gospel according to St. Luke.

    Taylor Caldwell's own travels through the Holy Land and years of meticulous research made Dear and Glorious Physician a fully developed portrait of a complex and brilliant man and a colorful re-creation of ancient Roman life. Here is a story to warm, to inspire, to call forth renewal of faith and love lying deep in each listener's heart.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateMay 22, 2018
    ISBN9781977374004
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    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, Dynasty of Death (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 New York Times bestsellers. Her best-known works include the historical sagas The Sound of Thunder (1957), Testimony of Two Men (1968), Captains and the Kings (1972), and Ceremony of the Innocent (1976), and the spiritually themed novels The Listener (1960) and No One Hears But Him (1966). Dear and Glorious Physician (1958), a portrayal of the life of St. Luke, and Great Lion of God (1970), about the life of St. Paul, are among the bestselling religious novels of all time. Caldwell’s last novel, Answer as a Man (1981), hit the New York Times bestseller list before its official publication date. She died at her home in Greenwich, Connecticut, in 1985.  

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    • 5/5
      Beautifully written story of a fascinating time in history. I feel as though I have been a living witness to these events.
    • 5/5
      Sensitive voicing of all characters. Well researched by author. Beautiful.
    • 3/5
      Good novel of Luke the physician (from the New Testament).
    • 5/5
      Generally, I like historical novels, especially ones that are biblically based. I also like doctor novels. I expected to love this book, and I did -- most of it. Some niggly parts niggled -- treatments I am pretty sure didn't exist at the time, miraculous healings, and some attitudes that were pretty common in the 1950s when the book was written.This is the telling of the story of Luke, the dear and glorious physician of the title. The problem is that Luke is too perfect. Except for his rebellion against God, Luke is the ultimate athlete, great doctor, handsome, favored by the emperor, and wealthy. It felt like gilding the lily. Still, it was a good book with so much positive to share. Sometimes I think with a book that is so good, the niggly things show up as a more of an issue because you wish the book were perfect. If you like biblical fiction, I think you will like this book.
    • 4/5
      A somewhat old-fashioned although beautifully written book. This novel tells the story of St. Luke, called herein Lucanus, from childhood, adoption by a kindly Roman patrician as the latter's son, medical studies in Alexandria, to his wanderings to serve the poor. He comes to a belief in Christ as Messiah after railing against God for years because of the deaths of loved ones and the cruelty of men against others. He has the marvelous idea to write down what he hears about Christ. The prose is really purple [I'm surprised my hands aren't stained :)] and it does get a tad sentimental at times. It's a moving novel nonetheless and well worth reading. This might make a good choice for Lent.The pace is slow, like other novels of yesteryear, but oh, Ms. Caldwell could really write. She made St. Luke human for me, and not a dusty historical figure. If you look at it with the eyes of today scrutinizing anything historical it comes up short, but everything else makes up for any inaccuracies. Luke's interviews of Biblical figures in the Christ story are fascinating: Pilate, John and James, and the Virgin Mary. The testimony of his brother, Priscus, a Roman soldier at the crucifixion, is especially poignant.
    • 3/5
      Dear and Glorious Physician is the fictionalized story of St. Luke the Evangelist, from his early childhood until he interviewed Mary the mother of Jesus for his account of Jesus' life. I'm not really sure what is considered fact and what is considered fiction in this lengthy tome (562 pages). Luke is portrayed as a brilliant and gifted man who is angry at God for a long time. It's a compelling read, and I first read it many years ago when I was a teenager.That said, this book just didn't quite stand the test of time for me. It took me a while to figure out that while there is a lot of description, the description just didn't shape itself into images. Normally I love reading through description but this I found to be a bit of a slog.
    • 5/5
      If you want to get a sense of what it was like around the time of Jesus's death, the early spread of Christianity, this is an excellent book. It's about the life of Saint Luke and how he fought against God and Christianity but came to embrace them and wrote his gospel.
    • 5/5
      Fictionalized but compelling life of Saint Luke.
    • 2/5
      I disliked this book, though I did finish it. "Fulsome prose." I am no expert, but to me it seemed full of anachronisms and anti-democracy propaganda, cultural stereotypes, and just plain invention.