| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.3

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Brahmin Prophet: Phillips Brooks and the Path of Liberal Protestantism. By Gillis J. Harp. (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003. xii, 237 pp. Cloth, $80.00, ISBN 0-8476-9960-9. Paper, $32.95, ISBN 0-8476-9961-7.)
Phillips Brooks shared preeminence with Henry Ward Beecher as a late nineteenth-century Prince of the Pulpit and as a leader in the rapidly emerging liberal Protestant movement. Unlike the scandal-prone Beecher but like most other liberals, he has been either ignored or left to the hagiographers since the neoorthodox revolt against liberalism that took hold after 1930.	1
Attitudes have been changing. The Protestant liberals are now receiving balanced scrutiny and are being recognized not just for their championing of higher criticism and a new social gospel but also for having maintained the traditions of spirituality that they were formerly pictured as disdaining. In this book Gillis J. Harp makes a major contribution to such reappraisal.	. . .

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