Of Intense Brightness

Be uncommon Christians . . . that is eminently holy self-denying cross-bearing Bible everyday Christians. So James Brainerd Taylor (1801-1829) 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.