Great Lion of God Free

Author: Taylor Caldwell
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Binding: Kindle Edition
ISBN: B00CEGZG8Y

Great Lion of God

For he was a veritable lion, a red lion, the great lion of God
~St.

Augustine
Saul of Tarshish, or, as the Romans called him, Paul of Tarsus, was a Pharisee, lawyer, theologian, and a dedicated Apostle of early Christianity. In this prodigious historical novel the author takes advantage of the richly varied and conflicting doctrine, revelation and history of the Bible to create her very own St. Paul. Although the story unfolds through quoted scripture, portentous dialogue, familiar tenets and pulpit certitudes, a detailed and panoramic portrait of Paul slowly unfolds. Reared in love of humanity by his father and seized by a longing to know God, but plagued by the severity of spiritual rigidity, Paul is driven to persecute his own

Great Lion of God

Augustine
Saul of Tarshish, or, as the Romans called him, Paul of Tarsus, was a Pharisee, lawyer, theologian, and a dedicated Apostle of early Christianity. In this prodigious historical novel the author takes advantage of the richly varied and conflicting doctrine, revelation and history of the Bible to create her very own St. Paul. Although the story unfolds through quoted scripture, portentous dialogue, familiar tenets and pulpit certitudes, a detailed and panoramic portrait of Paul slowly unfolds
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Saul of Tarshish, or, as the Romans called him, Paul of Tarsus, was a Pharisee, lawyer, theologian, and a dedicated Apostle of early Christianity. In this prodigious historical novel the author takes advantage of the richly varied and conflicting doctrine, revelation and history of the Bible to create her very own St. Paul. Although the story unfolds through quoted scripture, portentous dialogue, familiar tenets and pulpit certitudes, a detailed and panoramic portrait of Paul slowly unfolds. Reared in love of humanity by his father and seized by a longing to know God, but plagued by the severity of spiritual rigidity, Paul is driven to persecute his own

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