Great Lion of God: A Novel About Saint Paul

A novel based on the life of Paul the Apostle. Saul of Tarsus is born into a devout Jewish family and raised to embrace their love of humanity. Driven by concerns about faith, he sets out to save his people from sacrilege. On the road to Damascus, a vision of the resurrected Jesus transforms his life. He converts to Christianity and becomes Paul, shifting from persecutor of blasphemers to apostle to the gentiles, exerting major influence on the Catholic Church and Western civilization. The novel presents Saint Paul as a complex figure of early Christianity—Pharisee, lawyer, theologian, and a human being with despairs, doubts, anxieties, angers, intolerances, and fleshly desires. It portrays him as one of the most passionate and dauntless figures of his era. This is the central novel in Taylor Caldwell's biblical trilogy, which also includes Dear and Glorious Physician and I, Judas. The ebook includes an illustrated biography of Taylor Caldwell with rare images from the author's estate.