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Nathaniel W. Taylor

(Taylor, Nathaniel W. (Nathaniel William), 1786-1858)

 Identifier: memoriesofyaleli00dwig (find matches) Title: Memories of Yale life and men, 1854-1899 Year: 1903 (1900s) Authors: Dwight, Timothy, 1828-1916 Subjects: Yale University Publisher: New York : Dodd, Mead and Co. Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: University of Connecticut Libraries View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: vailable.The institution had indeed come to a critical turning-point in its history, and its work must hereafter belongto the younger generation. Dr. Taylor and his three associates were remarkablemen. They were as remarkable in their differences fromone another as they were in their individual mentalgifts. Dr. Taylor himself was an original thinker ofa high order. He had a creative mind and was fittedto be the founder of a new system, whether of theologyor philosophy. His intellectual powers were self-impelling, rendering him ever alive for the investigationof truth, and ever ardent in the desire to lay hold u()onthe deepest and the highest things. He was possessedof that peculiar mental enthusiasm which, by reason ofits inspiring force within the man himself, imparts itselfas by a necessity to other men. He had a commandingpersonality as he sat in his professorial chair in hislecture-room—his head and face being indicative ofgreatness and his eyes suggesting to all who looked upon Text Appearing After Image: PROFESSOR NATHANIEL W. TAYLOR MEMORIES OF YALE LIFE AND MEN him clearness of insight and penetrating intelligence.With the characteristic decisiveness of men of his order,his confidence in the conclusions which he reached wasvery strong and his announcement of them was, in anequal degree, emphatic. He was dogmatic, not in a badsense, but in a good sense. He was ever ready to gothrough a process of reasoning or argumentation withthose who found objections to his views or were movedto oppose them. But he made it manifest, in everydiscussion, that in his own mind he had passed throughthe entire domain of the subject, and that the difficultieswhich might be troublesome to those who presentedthem had been already met and set aside in his personalthinking. Of the Pauline type in many respects, he hadmuch of the heroism of the Apostle; much of his large-mindedness; much of his true Christian freedom; andmuch of his readiness to meet any and every adversaryon the field of doctrine or of argum Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
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Nathaniel William Taylor (June 23, 1786 – March 10, 1858) was an influential Protestant Theologian of the early 19th century, whose major contribution to the Christian faith (and to American religious history), known as the New Haven theology or Taylorism, was to line up historical Calvinism with the religious revivalism of the time (The Second Great Awakening). A graduate of Yale College, he returned to found the school's first independent division, the Theological Department, an institution which later became the Yale Divinity School. (From Wikipedia)

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