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Article: Phillips Brooks: Pulpit Eloquence.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
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- Church History
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- December 1, 2002
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By David B. Chesebrough. Great American Orators, 30. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 2001. xxii + 188 pp. $77.00 cloth.
In nineteenth-century America, the sermon was an immensely important form of public address. Phillips Brooks was one of its most celebrated exemplars. Born in 1835 and ordained an Episcopal priest in 1859, Brooks served two parishes in Philadelphia before achieving eminence in Boston, where he was rector of Trinity Church for twenty-two years and Episcopal bishop for fifteen months when he died at age fifty-seven.
Chesebrough structures his volume upon the chronology of Brooks's career, includes the texts of three sermons, and draws upon ...