Wayment, a BYU professor of ancient scripture, said Talmage was not yet an apostle at the time he first received the commission from the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to write the book, but was already well-known among Mormon leadership.Ī teacher and principal at church schools, he had distinguished himself as a scientist, educator and author by 1900. “Those five things make it what it is today: an incredible, enduring and classic book,” he remarked. Richard Neitzel Holzapfel, a Brigham Young University professor of church history and doctrine, said five elements combine to give "Jesus the Christ" its unique character: Elder Talmage was a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, the First Presidency asked him to write it, he wrote the manuscript in the Salt Lake Temple, the church published it, and it was immediately used as part of the church’s curriculum in its Sunday classes. Millions of copies have been sold, and scholars regard it as the best-selling doctrinal work in LDS Church history, next to the standard works themselves. 15, 1915, it remains an essential element of most well-stocked Latter-day Saint libraries, having never gone out of print. In this, the 100th-anniversary year since the book was first published on Sept. SALT LAKE CITY - In LDS literature, there’s nothing quite like the enduring classic "Jesus the Christ" by Elder James E.
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