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Talmage, J.E. – Jesus the Christ (Mormon views)

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JESUS THE CHRIST

Jesus the Christ
A Study of the Messiah and His Mission according to Holy Scriptures both Ancient and Modern
By JAMES E. TALMAGE
One of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

PUBLISHED BY THE CHURCH
SIXTH EDITION
TWENTY-EIGHTH TO THIRTIETH THOUSAND INCLUSIVE
Salt Lake City, Utah
Deseret Book Company
1922

Copyright September 1915, December 1915, April 1916, and November 1916

By JOSEPH F. SMITH
Trustee-in-Trust for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Copyright, October, 1922

By HEBER J. GRANT
Trustee-in-Trust for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Printed in the United States of America [Pg iii]




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Albert the Great – On Cleaving to God

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On Cleaving to God

On Cleaving to God
attributed to Saint Albert the Great (1193-1280)

This famous and much loved little treatise, On Cleaving to God, (De Adhaerendo Deo) has always been attributed to Saint Albert the Great, who lived from about 1200 to 1280, and was one of the most respected theologians of his time.”I have had the idea of writing something for myself on and about the state of complete and full abstraction from everything and of cleaving freely, confidently, nakedly and firmly to God alone, so as to describe it fully (in so far as it is possible in this abode of exile and pilgrimage), especially since the goal of Christian perfection is the love by which we cleave to God.” –St. Albert the Great, On the highest and supreme perfection of man, in so far as it is possible in this life.




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