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Of intense brightness : the spirituality of uncommon Christian James Brainerd Taylor

""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,

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