Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Early Years Chapter 3 Phillips Brooks: Civil Warrior Chapter 4 Tearing Down and Building Up Chapter 5 A Prince of the Pulpit: Phillips Brooks and Nineteenth Century Preaching Chapter 6 Close of the Century Chapter 7 Conclusion
Gillis J. Harp is professor of history at Grove City College and the author of Positivist Republic: Auguste Comte and the Reconstruction of American Liberalism, 1865-1920.
Gillis Harp's masterful treatment of Phillips Brooks in the
intellectual and church context of his time is an instant classic.
Dr. Harp's feel, from the inside, for Anglican Evangelicanism makes
him an ideal interpreter of Brooks' ambivalent achievement. This is
extremely solid scholarship, bearing somewhat devastating
implications for the present.
*Rev. Dr. Paul F. M. Zahl, author of A Short Systematic
Theology*
A fascinating, original account of one of America's greatest
preachers. The author draws upon historical, literary,
architectural, and theological analysis to demonstrate the ways
Phillips Brooks reflected and transformed his times—concluding with
a sober assessment of his legacy in our own day.
*Daniel Walker Howe, Oxford University*
This fresh account of the life of Phillips Brooks takes seriously
his religious thought. Harp places Brooks within the context of the
conflicts in late 19th-century American Episcopalianism and in the
larger context of American Protestant liberalism. The result is a
biography through which the reader simultaneously gains insight
into the life of one of the most important clergymen of the Gilded
Age, is led through the tangle of denominational battles that
persist in American Episcopalianism to the present, and is provided
with perspectives on the path of American liberal Protestantism.
Brooks's life and thought are the prism through which both Broad
Church Episcopalianism and liberal Protestantism are refracted with
insight and clarity. Recommended.
*CHOICE*
An expert examination of Brooks's powerful pulpit oratory.
*Religious Studies Review*
A thoroughly researched, gracefully written, learned, and
insightful account of nineteenth-century Episcopal preacher
Phillips Brooks's religious thought.
*American Historical Review*
This work is much more than an excellent biography of Phillips
Brooks. It is set in such a wide-ranging authoritative theological
context that Brooks is truly seen as a 'Path of Liberal
Protestantism' stretching from the 17th century to our own
times.
*The Right Reverend Christopher FitzSimmons Allison*
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