An Uncommon Christian

James Brainerd Taylor, Forgotten Evangelist in America's Second Great Awakening

By (author) Francis I. Kyle III Foreword by John F. Thornbury

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Publication date:

24 December 2007

Length of book:

255 pages

Publisher

UPA

ISBN-13: 9781461677277

An Uncommon Christian seeks to show how and why James Brainerd Taylor (1801–1829) became a popular participant during America's Second Great Awakening, and why the Princeton graduate and Yale Seminary student grew to be a frequent example of evangelical Protestant spirituality and evangelistic passion long after his untimely death. Those interested in religious revivals, evangelism and missions, spirituality, early nineteenth-century American history, the integration of faith and action with university or seminary studies, or inspirational Christian biography will benefit from this exhaustive and long overdue book on a forgotten "hero" of the Protestant faith.
Francis Schaeffer used to say 'there are no little people' in God's family. Francis Kyle's excellent, indeed impressive, study of James Brainerd Taylor is a timely reminder of this abiding truth. We are indebted to Mr. Kyle for reintroducing us to this almost forgotten saint from America's 'Second Awakening.'