Doctor Thomas Doubts: A Search for Conviction by Paul Frank Bradley (9781608360666)
Paul Frank Bradley
Release Date: 23 March 2009 Format: Paperback Pages: 214 Category: Medical Publisher: PublishAmerica ISBN: 9781608360666 ISBN-10: 1608360660
Dr. Thomas is disillusioned with his profession due to its mechanistic nature and its current internal political situation. He is a spiritual man and indeed initially entered the church but experienced a similar frame of mind, making him change careers. He has also had the breakup of two marriages. He considers whether he is at the end of things or at the beginning of a new and exciting era. Is it all his own fault due to his doubting nature, or are there fundamental problems with modern-day medicine and current religious faith? He is invited to lecture in Madrid, allowing him to undertake a spiritual pilgrimage to seek out traces of the artist El Greco in Toledo and the Spanish mystics in Avila. Anna, a beautiful young plastic surgeon, and Zena, a mature and mystical Jungian psychiatrist, are his guides. So it works out