[f. the name of N. W. Taylor, of New Haven, Connecticut (1786–1858): see -ISM.] The theological system of N. W. Taylor, a modified form of Calvinism.
1833. Liberator, 1 June, 2/2. If he [Garrison] meant by existence the fact that slavery is at the present moment, then does he (ultra Taylorism?) reverse the doctrine of ‘Adam’s sin.’
1882–3. Schaff’s Encycl. Relig. Knowl., III. 2306. It was popularly termed ‘The New Haven Theology.’ Sometimes it was called ‘Taylorism.’
1885. C. A. Briggs, in Encycl. Brit., XIX. 700/1. Puritan theology had developed in New England into Edwardism and then into Hopkinsianism, Emmonsism, and Taylorism.
