Dear and Glorious Physician by Taylor Caldwell

Dear and Glorious Physician by Taylor Caldwell

The world-famous novel about the triumphant story of St. Luke. Man of science, and Gospel writer.

Today St. Luke is known as the author of the third Gospel of the New Testament, but two thousand years ago he was Lucanus, a Greek, a man who loved, knew the emptiness of bereavement, and later traveled through the hills and wastes of Judea asking, What manner of man was my Lord? And it is of this Lucanus that Taylor Caldwell tells here in one of the most stirring stories ever lived or written.

Lucanus grew up in the household of his stepfather, the Roman govenor 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.

Janet Miriam Holland Taylor Caldwell (1900-1985) was an Anglo-American novelist and prolific popular fiction author. She was also known by the pen names Marcus Holland and Max Reiner, as well as her marital name of J. Miriam Reback is a writer. As in her best-known writings, Sweet and Wonderful Physician (about Saint Luke) and The World is the Lord's (about Genghis Khan), she frequently exploited real historical events or people in her fiction. Her latest novel was released in 1980.