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The Reverend Phillips Brooks, writer of the beloved Christmas Carol, O Little Town of Bethlehem, was once undeniably some of the popular preachers of Gilded Age The united states. On the other hand, only a few essential studies of his life and work exist. On this insightful book, Gillis J. Harp places Brooks’s religious thought in its proper historical, cultural, and ecclesiastical contexts whilst clarifying the sources of Brooks’s inspiration. The result’s a fuller, richer portrait of this luminous figure and of this transitional era in American protestantism.