This book focuses on the works of America's premier colonial poet, Edward Taylor (1642 1729). This study analyses typology in Taylor's Christographia and Treatise Concerning the Lord's Supper and examining Taylor's adaptations of figural analogies to suit his personal spiritual needs, Professor Rowe advances a theory which unites Taylor's exegetical discipline as a preacher with his creativity as a poet. This is the first work to draw on the collection of unpublished sermons, discovered in 1977, Upon the Types of the Old Testament. Professor Rowe links Taylor's sermons with corresponding...
This book focuses on the works of America's premier colonial poet, Edward Taylor (1642 1729). This study analyses typology in Taylor's Christographia ...