Of intense brightness : the spirituality of uncommon Christian James Brainerd Taylor /
edited and introduced by I. Francis Kyle III ; foreword by James M. Houston ; epilogue by Peter Adam.
- xviii, 168 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Includes forty-five selected and edited letters and journal entries of Taylor.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-158) and index.
"Of intense brightness" : the life and spirituality of uncommon Christian James Brainerd Taylor -- Chronology of the life and ministry of James Brainerd Taylor -- Selections from James Brainerd Taylor's letters and journal entries -- A special word to university and seminary students / Peter Adam.
"'Be uncommon Christians . . . that is, eminently holy, self-denying, cross-bearing, Bible, everyday Christians.' So James Brainerd Taylor (18011829) encouraged others to be, and so he strived to be himself. Of Intense Brightness reveals aspects of Taylor's uncommon Christianity by allowing the Princeton and Yale-educated evangelist to speak for himself. By means of forty-five selected and edited letters and journal entries of Taylor's (written from ages fourteen to twenty-seven), readers will obtain a unique glimpse into the inner workings of an evangelical Protestant spirituality that was, according to nineteenth-century Princeton Seminary professor Samuel Miller, 'so uniform, that we had only, as it were, one face, and that of intense brightness to behold.'" -- Publisher's description.