Uncommon Christian

I. Francis Kyle III is a youth and college campus minister in Port Angeles, Washington, and a Doctor of Ministry student at Western Seminary in Portland, Oregon. A graduate of Canada's Prairie Bible College and Toronto Baptist Seminary (M. Div., Th.M.), Kyle is a member of the Evangelical Theological Society, Evangelical Missiological Society, American Society of Church History, National Association of Evangelicals, and Mission America Coalition: Uniting Christians For Evangelism and Revival. His edited anthology, Of Intense Brightness: The Spirituality of Uncommon Christian James Brainerd Taylor, is forthcoming from University Press of America.

• Part 1 ForewordPart 2 PrefaceChapter 3 IntroductionChapter 4 Two MemoirsChapter 5 Historical Context: Cultural, Philosophical, TheologicalChapter 6 Connecticut and New York City, 1801–1819Chapter 7 Academy at Lawrenceville, 1820–1823Chapter 8 Princeton University, 1823–1826Chapter 9 Theological Seminary at Yale, 1827–1828Chapter 10 Activity in RevivalsChapter 11 Trips to the South and Death, March 1828–March 29, 1829Chapter 12 Spirituality of an Uncommon ChristianPart 13 Appendix A: Chronology of the Life of James Brainerd TaylorPart 14 Appendix B: David Brainerd and James Brainerd Taylor: A Comparative ChartPart 15 BibliographyPart 16 Index

Francis Kyle has told the story of Taylor's remarkable, short life in an accessible manner. He has also probed very helpfully the way in which Taylor's spiritual experience made a crucial contribution to his ministry.