Problems with the Path of Phillips Brooks: Agreeing and Disagreeing with Gillis Harp

This article takes the opportunity of Gillis Harp's recent biography of nineteenth-century American Episcopalian Phillips Brooks to engage Harp's theological situation of the Episcopal Church. Harp's revisionist historiographical argument, rejecting the Broad Church ‘myth of synthesis...

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1. VerfasserIn: Wells, Christopher 1973- (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Cambridge Univ. Press 2008
In: Journal of Anglican studies
Jahr: 2008, Band: 6, Heft: 2, Seiten: 213-239
weitere Schlagwörter:B Gillis Harp
B Doctrine
B Catholic
B Phillips Brooks
B Heresy
B Evangelical
B Orthodoxy
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Zusammenfassung:This article takes the opportunity of Gillis Harp's recent biography of nineteenth-century American Episcopalian Phillips Brooks to engage Harp's theological situation of the Episcopal Church. Harp's revisionist historiographical argument, rejecting the Broad Church ‘myth of synthesis’ for a more agonized tale of trenchant party battles, is welcome for its perceptiveness and depth of analysis, not least as these historical difficulties remain at the centre of contemporary intra-Anglican and ecumenical conversations. Harp's commitment to a ‘Reformed’ and ‘evangelical’ Anglicanism, however, raises a series of questions – concerning the nature of orthodoxy and Christian doctrine, as well as ‘Protestant’ identity – that deserve greater investigation, and that historians and theologians would do well to pursue together.
ISSN:1745-5278
Enthält:Enthalten in: Journal of Anglican studies
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/1740355308097412