Rich Hites

Great and Beloved Physician Rich Hites

What transforms a man from a hater to a healer, from a battle-hardened soldier to a life-saving doctor, in Rome's first-century empire? This is the journey for Centurion Lucius Maximus, which begins as aboy when his father coerces him into the army, a path his mother interrupts with a secret vow. Thatintervention intensifies after Lucius receives a posting to the frontier of Palestine, where he encountersa strange teacher and healer, one Jeshua ben Joseph, or as his Followers call him "the Nazarene." Soon, even dead, the mysterious man holds such control over Lucius that he questions the Nazarene's demise, particularly after meeting a peculiar prisoner in Pontius Pilate's dungeon. This cellmate named Caduceus not onlyopens Lucius to the secrets of curing the sick but also to the deeper powers of the Nazarene's kingdom. So, what will become of a soldier who possesses such power and enters such a kingdom? What lives willintersect with his, particularly that of an enigmatic woman of Parthia, named Axsen; a powerful womanof wealth from Corinthia, called Chloe, and a relentless preacher, a Follower named Paulus, "theApostle." They lead Lucius into writing his own account of the Nazarene, a story which swirls him everfurther into the Nazarene's empire and a relationship which imperils his life in the empire for which heonce fought. Will this path finally transform Lucius Maximus into "the great and beloved Physician" ordestroy him forever? To discover the answer, join Lucius' journ