Doctor of Men and Souls (Special Edition)

The story of one of the most important figures of the early Christian Church in a deluxe hardcover edition. In A Doctor of Men and Souls , Taylor Caldwell portrays the life and work of Saint Luke in rich detail in a moving narrative.

Taylor Caldwell spent forty-six years writing this moving book about the life of Saint Luke. Lucan, or Luke, the only non-Jewish apostle, never saw Christ, and everything written in his Gospel was gathered through research and the testimonies of Christ's mother, the disciples, and the apostles.

Even so, he became the greatest defender of the Christian faith and, like Saul of Tarsus (later Paul, the apostle to the Gentiles), did not believe that Our Lord had come only to save the Jews. Precisely for this reason, the two men encountered many difficulties with Jesus' first disciples.

Luke was, above all, a great physician, and almost all the events narrated in this book are authentic – the setting of Saint Luke's early life, his adulthood and his quest, as well as facts related to his family.

The story of Saint Luke is the story of the pilgrimage of all men through the despair and darkness of life, through suffering and anguish, through doubt and cynicism, through rebellion and hopelessness, to the understanding of God.