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Phillips Brooks

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Biography

Name: Phillips Brooks
Birth Date: December 13, 1835
Death Date: 1893
Place of Birth: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: religious leader, statesman, scholar

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Biography of Phillips Brooks
499 words, approx. 2 pages
American Protestantism's most respected figure in the last half of the 19th century, Phillips Brooks (1835-1893) derived his stature from his personal qualities rather than from his position as scholar, saint, or ecclesiastical statesman. Phillips...


Quotations
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Phillips Brooks Quotes
3,414 words, approx. 11 pages
The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but who give us, out of themselves, the ardent spirit and desire to act right, and leave us then, even through many blunders, to find out what our own...


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Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Phillips Brooks Information
1,170 words, approx. 4 pages
Brooks was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1835. Through his father, William Gray Brooks, he was descended from the Rev. John Cotton; through his mother, Mary Ann Phillips, a very devout woman, he was a great-grandson of Samuel Phillips, Jr., the...


News and Journals
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Anglican Theological Review
The social teaching of Phillips Brooks
01/01/2002: 4,333 words, approx. 14 pages
Historical Background and Recent Studies of Brooks Phillips Brooks (December 13, 1835-January 23, 1893) is widely recognized to be one of the great preachers in American church history. Indeed, Sydney Ahlstrom describes Brooks and Henry Ward Beecher of Plymouth Congregational Church in Brooklyn...
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Anglican and Episcopal History
Phillips Brooks: Pulpit Eloquence
09/01/2002: 584 words, approx. 2 pages
DAVID B. CHESEBROUGH. Phillips Brooks: Pulpit Eloquence. Great American Orators, Number 30. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2001. Pp. xxi + 188, bibliography, index. $77.00. This study of the life, thought, and preaching style of Phillips Brooks is part of a monograph series that...
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AP News
Phillips said to succeed Brooks
1/18/2008: 360 words, approx. 1 pages
Kentucky offensive coordinator Joker Phillips will eventually become the Wildcats' head coach following Rich Brooks' retirement.The 66-year-old Brooks has not set a timetable for his retirement, the university announced Friday in a news release. He will sign a contract extension through 2011 on Friday that...
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AP News
Today in history - Dec. 13
12/13/2006: 592 words, approx. 2 pages
Today is Wednesday, Dec. 13, the 347th day of 2006. There are 18 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Dec. 13, 1862, Union forces suffered a major defeat to the Confederates at the Battle of Fredericksburg.On this date:In 1642, Dutch navigator Abel Tasman...
 


 

Phillips Brooks

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