Dear and Glorious Physician Summary
Taylor Caldwell

Dear and Glorious Physician Summary

Since Luke (or Lucanus) is portrayed more as a physician than an evangelist, it is safe to conclude that Caldwell has a strong interest in the theme of medicine itself, an interest that would resurface in Testimony of Two Men (1968). In the preface to Dear and Glorious Physician, she decries Justinian's destruction of the Library at Alexandria because it shut off forever the knowledge of Babylonian science. The Babylonians, she notes with conviction...

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