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....
The Education of Phillips Brooks probes the formative years of one of the best-known figures of Victorian America's Gilded Age. Rigorously researched,...
In his time, Robert Hallowell Gardiner III (1855-1924) was the heart and soul of the Progressive Era's movement to establish cooperation among all Christian churches. Gardiner's legacy today is the World Council of Churches. From his home on the Kennebec River and from the Maine town that bears his family's name, Gardiner carried on an extensive letter-writing campaign on behalf of the reunion of worldwide Christianity. John F. Woolverton incorporates Gardiner's eleven thousand letters, as well as his published speeches and articles and family records, to present the first biography of...
In his time, Robert Hallowell Gardiner III (1855-1924) was the heart and soul of the Progressive Era's movement to establish cooperation among ...