Brahmin Prophet Phillips Brooks and the Path

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.

Gillis Harp is professor of history at Grove City College.

Preface	ix
Introduction	1	(8)
1 Christian Nurture	9	(38)
2 Civil Warrior	47	(20)
3 Separation and Reconstruction	67	(40)
4 A Prince of the Pulpit: Phillips Brooks and Nineteenth-Century Preaching	107	(42)
5 The Modern Christian	149	(58)
Conclusion	207	(14)
Bibliography	221	(10)
Index	231	(6)
About the Author	237

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Brahmin Prophet Phillips Brooks and the Path of Liberal Protestantism

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