Which Reminds Me

One book that I did read during high school was the novel by Taylor Caldwell, "The Glorious Physician," which attempts to novelize the story of Luke, the physician who wrote two books of the New Testament as letters to his friend Theophilus. The book attempts to work in a lot of historical information about ancient civilization during the Roman Empire but the author's modernist outlook gives short shrift to the gospel story . After all, don't we all know that ancient Roman civilization was horribly wicked, the Roman people brutal and cruel? So why give so much attention to the Romans? Obviously we wouldn't want to go back to that. The whole point of Christianity was to transform the society from the inside out, by the renewing of minds, one person at a time, and not to allow ourselves to be molded by society. We are not to be conformed to this world, a form that is fading and will soon pass away.