[NYer]

It is so wonderful to know that Taylor Caldwell's books are still in circulation and making a comeback. Her novels are packed with details specific to the times in which the characters lived. She transports the reader back to the time of the Apostles and brings them to life.

"Dear and Glorious Physician" was required reading in high school. It was the first of many Caldwell books I have read and continue to treasure. Another excellent work is:

This is the story of St. Paul, a Jew in love with his faith! I would encourage everyone to read at least one of these books. You will not be disappointed.

[madison10]

The Gospel of Luke is my favorite New Testament book, after Hebrews. I think it is the style and detail that make it so good. Luke, the physician, was an excellent journalist.

[Kolokotronis]

+Luke is the known to be the first icon writer. He is said to have written three of the Most Holy Theotokos.

[Steelfish]

“Dining in the Kingdom of God” is a great book on St. Luke authored by the late Fr. Eugene A. La Verdiere.

He describes the 10 major meals in Luke’s Gospel and shows how each of them provides an insight into a particular aspect of the Eucharist especially those meals of Christ eaten with the outcasts and the marginalized.

He tells us that the meals eaten by the risen Christ puts to rest any theory that it was all an apparition. As in the Emmaus passage, “their eyes were opened and they recognized the Lord in the breaking of the bread.”

[kosta50]

Funny, Marcion loved Luke to the exclusion of all others save for Paul. Too bad, Taylor doesn’t tell us which version of Luke she prefers, the long or the short.

[count-your-change]

“Apparently they had some way of utilizing electricity unknown to us, and not in our present clumsy manner. It is reported that they used “land vessels” without horses, lighted at night, and attaining great speed. (See the Book of Daniel.) It is also reported that they used strange “stones” or a kind of ore for the cure of cancer. They were expert in the employment of hypnotism, in psychosomatic medicine. Abraham, a resident of the city of Ur, in Babylonia, brought this treatment of psychosomatic medicine to the Jews, who used it through all the centuries. The Magi, “the Wise Men of the East”, who brought gifts to the Infant Jesus, were Babylonians, though that nation long before had suffered a great decline.”

She left out the part about space aliens using anti-gravity devices to build the pyramids.