The House of the Lord: A Study of Holy Sanctuaries Ancient and Modern - Hardcover

James E. Talmage

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1621085589 ISBN 13: 9781621085584

Publisher: Covenant Communications Inc., 2014

Synopsis

Penned by perhaps the most eloquent and prolific writer of the early twentieth-century LDS apostles, this Collector's Edition of The House of the Lord contains the complete text from the original 1912 printing along with 12 beautiful color plates from well-known artists. This edition also includes stunning pictures of every LDS temple, as well as the dedication date for each temple and an excerpt from each dedicatory prayer.

For nearly a century, this monumental classic has been the cornerstone for the understanding of Latter-day Saint temples. Originally commissioned by the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1911, this work is addressed to all who are interested LDS Church members and nonmembers alike.

With readable, logical, and elegant prose, Elder James E. Talmage reflects the LDS understanding that latter-day temples are a continuation of temple building and temple worship from antiquity. He tells the history of temple worship, explains why we need temples today, and discusses temple ordinances framing these concepts within the larger principles and ordinances of the gospel. A volume well worth reading and rereading, The House of the Lord is an ideal introduction for those preparing to enter the temple for the first time as well as a wonderful reminder for those who have attended hundreds of times.

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From the Publisher

This book contains the Text from the First Edition as well as all of the photos. Later editions edited the text, and photographs were removed. One edition was published without any photographs at all. This is a wonderful gift quality edition.

About the Author

James E. Talmage was born in 1862 in England, where his family converted to Mormonism and migrated to America when he was fourteen. Young James attended Brigham Young Academy in Utah Valley, followed by two years at Leheigh University in Pennsylvania and Johns Hopkins University in Maryland. Afterwards he studied by correspondence with Illinois Wesleyan University faculty and received a Ph.D. from that institution in 1896, becoming the first Latter-day Saint to earn a doctorate degree. He taught chemistry and geology at BYA until 1888. That year, after marrying Merry May Booth, he was named president of the Latter-day Saints College in Salt Lake City (now LDS Business College). A few years later his career shifted direction with an appointment at the University of Utah, first as a geology professor and then as chair of the department, and finally as university president beginning in 1894.

Early in his career he published Tables for Determinations of Minerals, The Great Salt Lake, The First Book of Nature, and Domestic Science, while simultaneously producing three landmark LDS books: The Articles of Faith, The Great Apostasy, and The Story of Mormonism. He became a fellow of the American Geological Society, the Royal Microscopical Society of London, and the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He also served as a consultant to the LDS First Presidency. It was in this later capacity that his intellectual and spiritual abilities came to the attention of church leaders, who called him to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in December 1911.

Over the next twenty-two years, his assignments included editing, revising, and annotating the Book of Mormon, Pearl of Great Price, and Doctrine and Covenants, and helping to standardize the temple endowment ceremonies. His doctrinal writings became accepted by the church as definitive expressions of LDS faith, beginning with The House of the Lord in 1912 and Jesus the Christ in 1915. He also authored priesthood manuals and numerous other church publications. His 1915 speech to the World Congress of Religious Philosophies in San Francisco, The Philosophical Basis of Mormonism,was published in several languages. By this time he had also become a popular newspaper columnist. A Boston publisher compiled his articles in 1919 as The Vitality of Mormonism. In addition, two selections of his religious broadcasts were published in 1929 and 1931 as Radio Addresses and Sunday Night Talks. He died in 1933 at the age of seventy.

Harvard S. Heath is curator of the Utah and American West Archives, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University; was a key research and writing assistant behind Ernest L. Wilkinson’s four-volume Brigham Young University: The First One Hundred Years; is the editor of In the World: The Diaries of Reed Smoot; and a contributor to The House of the Lord: A Study of Holy Sanctuaries Ancient and Modern. He has delivered papers at professional meetings of the Western History Association and elsewhere and published in the Journal of Mormon History, and he serves on the board of editors of Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought.

Edition details

• Publisher: Covenant Communications Inc.
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1621085589
• ISBN 13: 9781621085584
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 336