Raising the Dead: A Doctor Encounters the Miraculous Book

I have to be honest. When I was submitting my name for this drawing, I realized, after the fact, that I must not have read through the overview of the story in its entirety. I had a very different perception of this book before I received it. I was not expecting it to be one of such high religious persuasion. Now, I am not a particularly religious person and so it is not infrequent that literature with a heavy religious tone turns me from a book.

But, I won the draw and decided to give it a chance. I was also quite a bit curious about the strong religious belief that persists with someone in a field often stereotyped with a lack of faith. So from a sociological standpoint, I plowed forward.

I was certainly not incorrect in my assessment of this being a highly religiously toned book, the synopsis points to this quite clearly, but I was quite taken with the overall story of a man drawn into belief, and not just apathetic belief, that he could not explain or reason, at least initially. I found my interest in this book falling with that tone of growth into a faith practiced, but perhaps not truly embraced in full. That element of the book was quite striking.