Vardis Fisher, born in 1895 to a religious Mormon family in Idaho, became a write and English professor at Columbia. The Testament of Man is an amazing series of 12 novels that cover all of human history from a religious perspective. He has studied religion carefully and provides much historical context for the development of religion over the years. The volumes are:
Darkness and the Deep
Prehistoric man's discovery of himself
The Golden Rooms
First sense of the supernatural
Intimations of Eve
The power of primitive woman
Adam and the Serpent
The male learns to dominate
The Divine Passion
Sun-worship and the power of sex
The Valley of Vision
King Solomon and his times
The Island of the Innocent
The wars of the Maccabees
Jesus Came Again
A new Messiah in Israel
A Goat for Azazel
A search for truth in the ancient world
The Passion Within (Peace Like a River)
Holy men and sinners in the desert
My Holy Satan
Death and love in the Middle Ages
For Passion, For Heaven (Orphans in Gethsemane: I)
Passions of modern man
The Great Confession (Orphans in Gethsemane: II)
Our own time -- and the unending search for fulfillment
Darkness and the Deep
Prehistoric man's discovery of himself
The Golden Rooms
First sense of the supernatural
Intimations of Eve
The power of primitive woman
Adam and the Serpent
The male learns to dominate
The Divine Passion
Sun-worship and the power of sex
The Valley of Vision
King Solomon and his times
The Island of the Innocent
The wars of the Maccabees
Jesus Came Again
A new Messiah in Israel
A Goat for Azazel
A search for truth in the ancient world
The Passion Within (Peace Like a River)
Holy men and sinners in the desert
My Holy Satan
Death and love in the Middle Ages
For Passion, For Heaven (Orphans in Gethsemane: I)
Passions of modern man
The Great Confession (Orphans in Gethsemane: II)
Our own time -- and the unending search for fulfillment
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