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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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
2008
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Journal of Anglican studies
Year: 2008, Volume: 6, Issue: 2, Pages: 213-239 |
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Gillis Harp
B Doctrine B Catholic B Phillips Brooks B Heresy B Evangelical B Orthodoxy |
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Summary: | 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. |
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ISSN: | 1745-5278 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of Anglican studies
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/1740355308097412 |