While Mortals Sleep

Reading Phillips Brooks Through Twenty-First-Century Eyes

Robert D Flanagan, Ian S Markham

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Pickwick Publications
05 June 2025

History of religion; Christianity; Anglican & Episcopalian Churches, Church of England; Christian ministry & pastoral activity

America's nineteenth-century preachers and religious leaders moved public sentiment and shaped the nation's moral character. Equally influencing events were America's preachers and religious leaders who moved public sentiment and shaped the nation's moral character. In that class of great religious figures is the Episcopal preacher and bishop Phillips Brooks. The Boston Brahmin and Harvard University graduate rose to heights as an anti-slavery clergyman and indefatigable pastor to congregations in Philadelphia and Boston. Yet, his many achievements must be balanced against his youthful arrogance and his shrewdness. This book examines the spiritual and moral character of Phillips Brooks (1835-1893) as evidenced through his life and ministry. The volume's eight essays recognize the most recent academic contribution, by Gillis J. Harp, Brahmin Prophet: Phillips Brooks and the Path of Liberal Protestantism (2003), but move beyond it in several crucial ways. This new work seeks to reevaluate Brooks, considering the early twenty-first-century social and racial conflicts and subsequent cultural soul-searching. The contributors portray Brooks as a man filled at times with hubris, classism, and prejudices and at other times with creative passion and pastoral concern for all peoples. While Mortals Sleep focuses less on the external influences upon Brooks and more on his actions and works within his historical context. The essays seek to show his legacy in a present-day light, illustrating Brooks at his best and worst.

Foreword by: Ian S Markham
Edited by: Robert D Flanagan
Imprint: Pickwick Publications
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 11mm
Weight: 381g
ISBN: 9798385236671
Pages: 156
Publication Date: 05 June 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Robert D. Flanagan has served as an Episcopal priest since 2003. He holds a Doctor of Ministry in Christian Spirituality and is Dean's Advisor for Partnerships at Virginia Theological Seminary and Chaplain at General Theological Seminary. He is the author of the Courage to Thrive book series, Growing a Sustainable Soul (2014), and The Letters of an Unexpected Mystic (Wipf & Stock, 2022). He and his wife, Lanie, live in Litchfield County, Connecticut. Ian S. Markham is the Dean and President of Virginia Theological Seminary and Professor of Theology and Ethics. He has written extensively on theological methodology, Christian ethics, and Christian doctrine.