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- catalog abstract "The Education of Phillips Brooks probes the formative years of one of the best-known figures of Victorian America's "Gilded Age." Rigorously researched, bringing as yet untapped archival material into play, John F. Woolverton's book is an extremely readable and fascinating look at a gifted, persuasive clergyman and public figure. The sermon Brooks delivered at his Holy Trinity Church in Philadelphia while Abraham Lincoln's body lay in state overnight in Independence Hall was published, making him nationally famous overnight. He also is known for penning the lyrics to "O Little Town of Bethlehem." Although Brooks was not a major theologian, he was nurtured in an atmosphere of serious religious thought. In the crisis era of pre-Civil War America, he sought a religious and cultural ideal in the "perfect manhood" of Jesus Christ and consequently "won a name" for himself, as his slightly envious cousin, Henry Adams, once remarked. Woolverton places Brooks in his cultural context and shows how this religious leader was shaped psychologically and by his times and how those factors helped him forge a spiritual ideal for a troubled nation.".
- catalog alternative "Phillips Brooks".
- catalog contributor b8276125.
- catalog coverage "Massachusetts Church history 19th century.".
- catalog created "c1995.".
- catalog date "1995".
- catalog date "c1995.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1995.".
- catalog description "1. New England Religion and Doting Parents -- 2. Growing Up in Boston's High Culture -- 3. Failure and the Poetry of Heroics -- 4. Virginia Seminary: Slavery and Evangelicalism -- 5. The Search for the Ideal: Reading the Text for Oneself.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [115]-148) and index.".
- catalog description "The Education of Phillips Brooks probes the formative years of one of the best-known figures of Victorian America's "Gilded Age." Rigorously researched, bringing as yet untapped archival material into play, John F. Woolverton's book is an extremely readable and fascinating look at a gifted, persuasive clergyman and public figure. The sermon Brooks delivered at his Holy Trinity Church in Philadelphia while Abraham Lincoln's body lay in state overnight in Independence Hall was published, making him nationally famous overnight. He also is known for penning the lyrics to "O Little Town of Bethlehem." Although Brooks was not a major theologian, he was nurtured in an atmosphere of serious religious thought. In the crisis era of pre-Civil War America, he sought a religious and cultural ideal in the "perfect manhood" of Jesus Christ and consequently "won a name" for himself, as his slightly envious cousin, Henry Adams, once remarked. Woolverton places Brooks in his cultural context and shows how this religious leader was shaped psychologically and by his times and how those factors helped him forge a spiritual ideal for a troubled nation.".
- catalog extent "xiv, 153 p. :".
- catalog identifier "025202186X (alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "Studies in Anglican history".
- catalog issued "1995".
- catalog issued "c1995.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Urbana : University of Illinois Press,".
- catalog spatial "Massachusetts Church history 19th century.".
- catalog spatial "Massachusetts".
- catalog subject "283/.092 B 20".
- catalog subject "Anglican Communion Bishops Education Massachusetts History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Anglican Communion Massachusetts Bishops Education History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "BX5995.B8 W66 1995".
- catalog subject "Brooks, Phillips, 1835-1893.".
- catalog subject "Episcopal Church Bishops Education Massachusetts History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Episcopal Church Massachusetts Bishops Education History 19th century.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. New England Religion and Doting Parents -- 2. Growing Up in Boston's High Culture -- 3. Failure and the Poetry of Heroics -- 4. Virginia Seminary: Slavery and Evangelicalism -- 5. The Search for the Ideal: Reading the Text for Oneself.".
- catalog title "Phillips Brooks".
- catalog title "The education of Phillips Brooks / John F. Woolverton.".
- catalog type "text".