Great Lion of God: A Novel about Saint Paul
- 654 Seiten
- 23 Lesestunden
Originally published: Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1970.
Diese Autorin ist bekannt für ihr umfangreiches Werk, das sich oft mit historischen Romanen und Themen wie Schicksal und menschlicher Natur beschäftigt. Ihr Stil zeichnet sich durch einen fesselnden und detaillierten Ansatz aus, der die Leser in die von ihr dargestellten Epochen und Umgebungen eintauchen lässt. Caldwell erforscht die komplexen Beziehungen zwischen Individuen und ihre inneren Kämpfe, die oft vor dem Hintergrund bedeutender historischer Ereignisse angesiedelt sind. Ihre Arbeit, die eine große Leserschaft fand, zeichnet sich durch Charaktertiefe und erzählerische Kraft aus.






Originally published: Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1970.
From his birth in 106 BC in the hill town of Arpinum, Cicero, the educated son of a wealthy member of the equestrian order, is destined for greatness. At a young age, he discovers the legend of the Unknown God, the coming Messiah, and it propels the rising lawyer on a journey of spiritual conflict and self-discovery. From his tumultuous family life to his tenuous alliance with Julius Caesar to a fateful love affair with the Roman empress Livia and, finally, to the political role that will make him a target of powerful enemies, A Pillar of Iron is the story of Cicero's legacy as one the greatest influences on Western civilization.
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.