The Healer’s Heart: A Modern Novel of the Life of St. Luke

Synopsis

If you have no cause worth dying for, do you have a reason to live?"Jedus say, 'Come folla me!' Bot de man ansa um say, 'Sah, fus leh me go an bury me papa.'"Luke 9:59, De Good Nyews Bout Jedus Christ Wa Luke Write (Gullah)While sorting through family papers following his father's massive stroke, Dr. Luke Tayspill, Yale Medical School's top infectious disease specialist, stumbles across a manuscript written decades earlier by his beloved grandfather. The book bears an ominous title, The Deaths of Lukas Tayspill-not death, but deaths. A closer inspection reveals that the book is about three characters with the same name. The first two Lucas Tayspills were 19th century Quakers who suffered martyrs' deaths. The third story-set in the future-ends abruptly with the arrival of a Dr. Lucas Tayspill in a plague-ridden, war torn African land. Was his grandfather foretelling Luke's own life story-and prophesying his death?Luke sets out on a deeply personal journey to Sierra Leone. But his pilgrimage to understand death leads to a powerful and unexpected encounter with the essence of life. Will Luke fulfill his grandfather's vision?This contemporary look at the spiritual journey of a doctor named Luke, The Healer's Heart thoughtfully brings the Gospel physician into our twenty-first century world.From the Trade Paperback edition.

Copyright:

2006

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

Book Size:

342 Pages

ISBN-13:

9780307551009

Related ISBNs:

9781578569137

Publisher:

WaterBrook Press

Date of Addition:

05/11/21

Copyrighted By:

Diane M. Komp

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs, Literature and Fiction, Religion and Spirituality, Education

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