Summary
A study of the life and mission of Jesus Christ, from His premortal Godship through His birth, ministry, Atonement and Resurrection to His appearance to the Nephites and the latter days. Talmage draws on scripture ancient and modern and on the scholarship of his day, and ends each chapter with notes that are read aloud here.
The book
- Author
- James E. Talmage
- Date of the work
- Written 1914–15; first published 1915
- Edition recorded
- Sixth edition, 1922 (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Company)
- Listening time
- 32 h 2 min
- Chapters
- 43
Where this text comes from
Talmage, a scientist and then a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, wrote the book at the request of the Church’s First Presidency, and it was first published in 1915. This recording follows the sixth edition of 1922.
Text digitized by Juliet Sutherland, David King and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team for Project Gutenberg (released September 8, 2007). Footnote references appear as small numbers you can tap; they are not read.
Public domain
Public domain, free to share. The text of Jesus the Christ is in the public domain in the United States. It was first published in 1915, and the edition recorded here appeared in 1922. Works published before 1931 are out of copyright there.
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