The Great Apostasy: Considered in the Light of Scriptural and Secular History

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The Great Apostasy Considered in the Light of Scriptural and Secular History is a 1909 tome written by James E. Talmage that sums up the Great Apostasy from the perspective of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).

James drafted his volume with the purpose that it be used as an instructive means within the LDS Church’s Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Association and the Young Women’s Mutual Improvement Association. The volume is “in many ways quite derivative” of B. H. Roberts’s 1893 Outlines of Ecclesiastical History. Both authors plagiarized greatly from the books of Protestant academics who disagreed that Roman Catholicism had renounced from rightful Christianity. James’ work has been illustrated as “the most recognizable and noted work on the topic” of Latter-day Saint analyses of the Great Apostasy.

James Edward Talmage was a British chemist, geologist, and spiritual leader who served as a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from 1911 up to his demise.

He was born and brought up in Hungerford, Berkshire, England. He was christened into the LDS Church at age 10 on June 15, 1873. He migrated with his family to Provo, Utah Territory, in 1877. In Provo, he took up the Normal Course at Brigham Young Academy (BYA), with Karl G. Maeser as among his instructors; he completed his studies in 1880.

In 1881, James obtained a collegiate diploma from BYA’s Scientific Department, the first diploma to be handed out. His first penchant was for the sciences, and in 1882 and 1883 he took particular courses in chemistry and geology at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

James was the writer of many devotional books, such as The Articles of Faith, The Great Apostasy, The House of the Lord, and Jesus the Christ. These books are still in publication and are still vastly read in the LDS Church.
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