Phillips Brooks

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Phillips Brooks fue un clérigo y autor episcopaliano estadounidense, durante mucho tiempo rector de la Iglesia de la Trinidad de Boston y brevemente obispo de Massachusetts. Uno de los predicadores más populares de la Edad Dorada, trabajó para hacer que la Iglesia Cristiana fuera más relevante para sus contemporáneos. Entre sus otros logros, escribió la letra del himno navideño "O Little Town of Bethlehem".

Occupation: writer, hymnwriter, Anglican priest, theologian
Position held: Bishop of Massachusetts
Citizenship: United States
Born: December 13, 1835, 1835
Died: January 23, 1893, 1893

Family

William Gray Brooksfather Mary Ann Phillipsmother

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Phillips Brooks (December 13, 1835January 23, 1893) fue un clérigo y autor episcopaliano estadounidense, durante mucho tiempo Rector de la Iglesia de la Trinidad de Boston y brevemente Obispo de Massachusetts. Escribió la letra del himno navideño "O Little Town of Bethlehem". Es honrado en el calendario litúrgico de la Iglesia Episcopal el 23 de enero. Antecedentes Vida temprana y educación Nacido en Boston, Brooks descendía a través de su padre, William Gray Brooks, del Rev. John Cotton; a través de su madre, Mary Ann Phillips, era bisnieto de Samuel Phillips, Jr., fundador de Phillips Academy (Andover, Massachusetts). Tres de los cinco hermanos de BrooksFrederic, Arthur y John Cottonfueron eventualmente ordenados en la Iglesia Episcopal.

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“The absence of sentimentalism in Christ's relations with men is what makes His tenderness so exquisitely touching.”
— Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 59.
“Never be afraid to bring the transcendent mysteries of our faith, Christ's life and death and resurrection, to the help of the humblest and commonest of human wants.”
— Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 88.
“Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully.”
— As quoted in Primary Education (1916) by Elizabeth Peabody, p. 190

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