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Article: Brahmin Prophet: Phillips Brooks and the Path of Liberal Protestantism.(The Consolations of God: Great Sermons of Phillips Brooks)(Book Review)
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- June 1, 2005
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Brahmin Prophet: Phillips Brooks and the Path of Liberal Protestantism. By Gillis Harp. American Intellectual Culture. New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 2003. xii + 237 pp. $32.95 paper.
The Consolations of God: Great Sermons of Phillips Brooks. Edited by Ellen Wilbur. Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans, 2003. xiv + 140 pp. $18.00 paper.
Gillis Harp and Ellen Wilbur have written two very different books about Philips Brooks, the Episcopal clergyman who became one of the most acclaimed and influential preachers in Gilded Age America, and who played an important role in liberalizing American Protestantism. Harp, an intellectual historian, assesses ...