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Article: The Great Delayer.(Brahmin Prophet: Phillips Brooks And The Path Of Liberal Protestantism)(Book Review)
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- First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life
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- August 1, 2004
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BRAHMIN PROPHET: PHILLIPS BROOKS AND THE PATH OF LIBERAL PROTESTANTISM. By GILLIS J. HARP. Rowman & Littlefield. 236 pp. $32.95.
ON A TRIP TO BOSTON a few years ago, I made a pilgrimage to one of America's most famous Episcopal churches, Trinity Church, Copley Square. I went, in large part, for architectural reasons. I have always admired H. H. Richardson, the architect whose plastic historical imagination is so well represented in the design of Trinity Church. I had my own theological reasons as well. Trinity Church had been recommended to me as something of a Boston anomaly: a vibrant urban parish with a flair for orthodoxy.
Trinity Church's good ...