TAYLOR, Nathaniel William, theologian, born in New Milford, Connecticut, 23 June, 1786; died in New Haven, Connecticut, 10 March, 1858. He was graduated at Yale in 1807, studied theology, and on 8 April, 1812, was installed as pastor of the 1st Congregational church in New Haven. In November, 1822, he resigned this office on being appointed professor of didactic theology at Yale. His theological sys-tern was in some respects a development of that of Timothy Dwight, whose pupil and amanuensis he was for two years after leaving college. His views on total depravity and other dogmas, which he first enunciated in the annual discourse to the clergy in 1828, and afterward defended in the " Christian Spectator," were earnestly controverted by Bennett Tyler, Leonard Woods, and other clergymen. His other essays and doctrinal sermons that were published during the Unitarian controversy excited attention and discussion. He was the leader of the New Haven school of theology, and exercised a powerful influence on the religious thought of his time. He received the degree of D. D. from Union college in 1823. After his death his son-in-law, Noah Porter, published his " Practical Sermons" (New York, 1858); " Lectures on the Moral Government of God" (2 vols., 1859); and "Essays 48TAYLOR and Lectures upon Select Topics in Revealed Theology" (1859). See "Memorial of Nathaniel W. Taylor" (New Haven, 1858).