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Article: Brahmin Prophet: Phillips Brooks and the Path of Liberal Protestantism.(Book Review)
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- Journal of Church and State
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- September 22, 2004
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Brahmin Prophet: Phillips Brooks and the Path of Liberal Protestantism. by Cillis J. Harp. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield, 2003. 237pp. $32.95, paper.
Episcopal clergyman Phillips Brooks was one of the nineteenth century's "princes of the pulpit," along with others such as Henry Ward Beecher and Dwight L. Moody. Like Beecher, and in contrast to Moody, Brooks's career provides great insight into the development of liberal Protestantism in America. Grove City College historian Gillis Harp has not written a conventional biography but instead something akin to a case study. His topic is liberal Protestantism; Brooks is the window into its development. As an ...