The Reverend Phillips Brooks, author of the beloved Christmas Carol, O Little Town of Bethlehem, was undeniably one of the most popular preachers of Gilded Age America. 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.
- ISBN10 0847699609
- ISBN13 9780847699605
- Publish Date 3 November 2003 (first published 1 January 2003)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 8 June 2022
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Rowman & Littlefield
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 256
- Language English