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Harp, Gillis J.

Brahmin prophet : Phillips Brooks and the path of liberal Protestantism / Gillis J. Harp. - Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, ©2003. - 1 online resource (xi, 237 pages) : illustrations - American intellectual culture . - American intellectual culture. .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-229) and index.

Christian nurture -- Civil warrior -- Separation and reconstruction -- A prince of the pulpit : Phillips Brooks and nineteenth-century preaching -- The modern Christian.

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The Reverend Phillips Brooks was undeniably one of the most popular preachers of Gilded Age America and the author of the beloved Christmas carol, 'O Little Town of Bethlehem.' However, very few critical studies of his life and work exist. In this insightful book, Gillis J. Harp places Brooks's religious thought in its proper historical, cultural, and ecclesiastical contexts while clarifying the sources of Brooks's inspiration. The result is a fuller, richer portrait of this luminous figure and of this transitional era in American protestantism.


Electronic reproduction.
[Place of publication not identified] :
HathiTrust Digital Library,
2010.


Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
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ISBN: 0585478929 9780585478920 9780742571983 074257198X

Subjects--Personal Names:
Brooks, Phillips, 1835-1893.
Brooks, Phillips, 1835-1893
Brooks, Phillips (Theologe)

Subjects--Corporate Names:
Episcopal Church--Bishops--Massachusetts--Biography.
Episcopal Church

Subjects--Topical Terms:
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Religious.
RELIGION--Christianity--Episcopalian.
Bishops
Protestantismus
Vrijzinnig protestantisme.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Massachusetts

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Biographies

LC Class. No.: BX5995.B8 / H37 2003

Dewey Class. No.: 283/.092 B