From Manger to Throne: Embracing a New Life of Jesus the Christ and a History of Palestine and Its People

by T. De Witt Talmage

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Genres: Biblical Studies

544 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1893

About the author

Reverend Dr. Thomas De Witt Talmage was a preacher, clergyman and divine in the United States who held pastorates in the Reformed Church in America and Presbyterian Church. He was one of the most prominent religious leaders in the United States during the mid- to late-19th century, equaled as a pulpit orator perhaps only by Henry Ward Beecher. He also preached to crowds in England. During the 1860s and 70s, Talmage was a well-known reformer in New York City and was often involved in crusades against vice and crime.

During the last years of his life, Dr. Talmage ceased preaching and devoted himself to editing, writing, and lecturing. At different periods he was editor of the Christian at Work (1873–76), New York; the Advance (1877–79), Chicago; Frank Leslie's Sunday Magazine (1879–89), New York; and the Christian Herald (1890–1902), New York. For years his sermons were published regularly in more than 3,000 journals, through which he was said to reach 25,000,000 readers.

[Bio source: Wikipedia]

See also Thomas De Witt Talmage.

Reviews

[Tom Brennan]

The physical book is a beautiful thing in an 1890s kind of way. Big, beautifully constructed, hundreds of black and white photographs/etchings included alongside the text. Talmage pastored a large church and his printed sermons had enormous circulation in the day. I expected much. I found next to nothing. It is a curious combination of extremely outdated travelogue (he took an extensive trip to the Holy Land in order to write it), fantasy (he positively references numerous extra-biblical legends and folds them into his tale), and florid storytelling. I know a bit about the era and life of Christ. Talmage is not wrong on his facts so much as overly dramatic in the telling of them. Maybe this type of thing pleased his fans, but for the actual student of the life of Christ there is nothing. I read the first 250 pages and gave up.