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NATHANIEL WILLIAM TAYLOR (1786-1858)

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 472 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WILLIAM See also:TAYLOR (1786-1858)  , See also:American Congregational theologian, was See also:born in New See also:Milford, See also:Connecticut, on the 23rd of See also:June 1786, See also:grandson of Nathaniel See also:Taylor (1722–1800), pastor at New Milford . He graduated at Yale See also:College in 1807, studied See also:theology under See also:Timothy See also:Dwight, and in 1812 became pastor of the First See also:Church of New Haven . From 1822 until his See also:death in New Haven on the loth of See also:March 1858 he was Dwight See also:professor of didactic theology at Yale . He was the last notable representative of the New See also:England School, in which his predecessors were the younger See also:Edwards, See also:John Smalley (1734–1820) and Nathaniel See also:Emmons . In the Yale Divinity School his See also:influence was powerful, and in 1833 one of his foremost opponents, Bennet See also:Tyler (1783–1858), founded in See also:East See also:Windsor a Theological See also:Institute to offset Taylor's teaching at Yale . Taylorism, sometimes called the " New Haven " theology, was an See also:attempt to defend Calvinism from Arminian attacks, and the See also:defence itself was accused of Arminianism and Pelagianism by A . A . See also:Hodge of See also:Princeton and Leonard See also:Woods of See also:Andover . Taylor's theology was distinctively infra-lapsarian; it disagreed with See also:Samuel See also:Hopkins and Emmons in rejecting the theory of divine efficiency " and in arguing that See also:man can choose the right " even if he won't " —distinguishing like Edwards between natural ability and moral inability; it distinguished sensibility or susceptibility as something different from will or understanding, without moral qualities, to which the See also:appeal for right choice may be made; and it made self-love (a See also:term borrowed from Dugald See also:Stewart, connoting the See also:innocent love of happiness and distinct from selfishness) the particular feeling appealed to by the influences of the See also:law and See also:gospel . He wrote See also:Practical Sermons (1858; edited by See also:Noah See also:Porter); Lectures on the Moral See also:Government of See also:God (2 vols., 1859), and Essays and Lectures upon Select Topics in Revealed Theology (1859), all published posthumously .

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