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Answering the Call The Doctor Who Made Africa His Life: the Remarkable Story of Albert Schweitzer

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ISBN-10: 1595550798

ISBN-13: 9781595550798

Edition: 2013

Authors: Ken Gire

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A learned, respected, accomplished man leaves a life of worldly success to serve Christ among "the least of these."Albert Schweitzer was a Renaissance man who basked in the utmost respect of the world's intelligentsia. Schweitzer had doctorates in philosophy, theology, and medicine. He was a well-respected author, a concert organist, and a world authority on Bach. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1952.But he left a life of acclaim to pursue the God-given call to treat all life as sacred, especially in those places on the fringe-in Africa. In what is now Gabon, indigenous people would see him daily with his stethoscope on a distended belly and hear him nighly performing classical music on his…    
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Book details

List price: $18.99
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Thomas Nelson Incorporated
Publication date: 3/18/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.396
Language: English

Ken Gire is the author of numerous books, including the Moments with the Savior series andWindows of the Soul.

Author's Note
Chronology of Albert Schweitzer's Life
Foreword
The Tolling of the Bell at Lambar�n�
First Glimpses of a Foreign Shore
A Home Among the Hills
The Peaceful Prisoner of War
Three Sacrifices Returned
Living in Lambar�n�
Living Between Two Worlds
Little Miracles in Lambar�n�
A Lamp Lights the Way
A Good Shepherd's Testimony
Afterword: The Mysterious Ripple Effect
Acknowledgment