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  Phillips Brooks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Phillips Brooks (December 13, 1835 - January 23, 1893), was a noted United States clergyman and author, who briefly served as Bishop of Massachusetts in the Episcopal Church during the early 1890s.
Phillips Brooks prepared for college at the Boston Latin School and graduated from Harvard University in 1855.
Brooks' sympathy with men of other ways and thought, and with the truth in other ecclesiastical systems gained for him the confidence and affection of men of varied habits of mind and religious traditions, and was thus a great factor in gaining increasing support for the Episcopal Church.
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 PHILLIPS BROOKS - LoveToKnow Article on PHILLIPS BROOKS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Through his father, William Gray Brooks, he was descended from the Rev. John Cotton; through his mother, Mary Ann Phillips, a woman of rare force of character and religious faith, he was a great-grandson of the founder of Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass.
Phillips Brooks prepared for college at the Boston Latin school and graduated at Harvard irs 1855.
Phillips Brooks was a tall, well-proportioned man of fine physique, his height being six feet four inches.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /B/BR/BROOKS_PHILLIPS.htm   (715 words)

  
 Fred Brooks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Brooks joined IBM in 1956, working in Poughkeepsie and Yorktown, New York.
He worked on the architecture of the Stretch (a $10m scientific supercomputer for the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory) and Harvest computers and then was manager for the development of the System/360 family of computers and the OS/360 software they ran.
In 1965, Brooks left IBM to found the Department of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and chaired it for 20 years.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fred_Brooks   (293 words)

  
 Phillips Brooks
Phillips Brooks has been called "the greatest American preacher of the nineteenth century." He attended the Boston Latin School, Harvard University (where Phillips Brooks House was named after him) and Virginia Theological Seminary.
Phillips Brooks was one of the leading preachers of the l9th century and perhaps of all time.
Although Brooks was not a poet, many feel that he would have been a great literary figure if he had chosen to follow that field.
www.hymnsandcarolsofchristmas.com /Hymns_and_Carols/Biographies/phillips_brooks.htm   (588 words)

  
 Phillips Brooks Biography / Biography of Phillips Brooks Biography
Phillips Brooks was born on Dec. 13, 1835, in Boston, the second of six sons of a family of affluence, respectability, piety, and learning.
Brooks quickly became Boston's first citizen, knowing the sheer adulation of the worshipers who regularly packed Trinity to hear his compelling sermons and to view his serene yet radiant presence.
Brooks never married, a decision he regretted in his last years; despite a legion of friends, he remained lonely without a wife or children.
www.bookrags.com /biography-phillips-brooks/index.html   (613 words)

  
 Phillips Brooks
At the time Brooks wrote this letter he was Rector of Boston's Trinity Church located at 206 Clarendon Street, just a few streets south of the rectory.
Phillips Brooks (1835-1893) was born in Boston, MA, the son of William Gray Brooks and Mary Ann Phillips.
From 1869 to 1891, Brooks was Rector of Trinity Church, Boston.
www.morrisonfoundation.org /phillips_brooks.htm   (451 words)

  
 Sermons - Trinity Boston   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Brooks was an immediate sensation on the Boston scene, and right away the throngs at Trinity were so great that plans were launched to create a new building in the developing area called the Back Bay.
Brooks articulated one of the most famous of all definitions of preaching: "Truth mediated through personality," and it was clear that the truth that moved through him was the living presence of Christ.
Brooks wrote him back a long letter, in which he said this: These last years have had a peace and fullness which there did not use to be.
www.trinityboston.org /wsp_smn_smnpage.asp?docpage=20020120.html   (2070 words)

  
 What do Phillips and Brooks offer their communties?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Seventy-four-year-old Brooks School is not as richly endowed as Phillips Academy, but it still offers the town tangible benefits, through the preservation of open space on its 243-acre campus, community service, and the opening up of its hockey rink to local skating programs.
Brooks School's property value in 1998 was more than $10 million, but for all that, it pays North Andover $53,000 in water fees and $21,000 in sewer fees.
Brooks School encourages students to volunteer with community projects, and their time is another part of what the school has to offer, Brooks officials said.
www.eagletribune.com /news/stories/20000813/LN_005.htm   (1510 words)

  
 FT August/September 2004: Books in Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Instead, for Brooks, the essence of good preaching is “truth through personality.” The authenticity, sincerity, and honesty of the preacher serve as the core of evangelism.
Brooks’ was a mind well stocked with theological thoughts, but he used them as his architect, Richardson, used the elements of Romanesque idiom in his Trinity Church—with a supple imaginative power that freely modified and arranged in order to achieve an effect.
Brooks was greatly influenced by Horace Bushnell, and Harp provides numerous citations from Brooks’ correspondence that show him as antipathetic to the doctrinal systems of classical Calvinism.
www.firstthings.com /ftissues/ft0408/reviews/harp.htm   (2217 words)

  
 CGF: News: Phillips Brooks School drops Woodside campus plan
Phillips Brooks parents he's spoken with have been disappointed but understanding about the decision, he said.
Phillips Brooks purchased the property for $6.9 million in 1997 after it had been sold by the neighboring Lawler family and subsequently passed through the hands of several owners without ever being built upon.
Jody Lawler, one of the most vocal opponents of the Phillips Brooks campus, said that while she was relieved with the school's decision to abandon the project, she felt bad for the plan's supporters.
www.greenfoothills.org /news/2002a/10-02-02_Almanac.html   (795 words)

  
 Grove City College   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Episcopal clergyman Phillips Brooks was one of the nineteenth century's "princes of the pulpit," along with others such as Henry Ward Beecher and Dwight L. Moody.
Ironically, while earlier biographers portrayed Brooks as part of the evangelical party, Harp argues forcefully, and convincingly, that Brooks's upbringing and training as an evangelical was eclipsed by his liberalism, a transformation that was obscured by his continued use of orthodox theological terms shorn of their historic meaning.
Brooks epitomized the hubris of modernity that so often saw tradition and community as obstacles to the limitless potential individuals possessed in their quest for an easily accessible God.
www.gcc.edu /news/faculty/stories/brahminbookreview.htm   (864 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Joy of Preaching: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Phillips Brooks was an Episcopal minister in late-19th century Boston whose Lyman Beecher Lectures on Preaching set the standard for generations to come.
Phillips Brooks said all that can be said about preaching, and all that needs to be said, in his lectures long ago." Dean Sperry replied that he need not have labored the point.
To Brooks, preaching is "the communication of truth through personality." Thus his lectures have as much to do with the person in the pulpit as with the task of preaching.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0825422760?v=glance   (846 words)

  
 BROOKS - LoveToKnow Article on BROOKS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Allen, D. D., professor of ecclesiastical history, Episcopal Theological school, Cambridge, Mass., who in 1907 published at New York, in a single volume, Phillips Brooks, an abbreviation and revision of the earlier biography, (W. BROOKSS, a London club in St Jamess Street.
The building had been previously opened as a gaming-house by William Macall (Almack), and afterwards by Brooks, a wine merchant and money-lender, whose name it retained.
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www.1911encyclopedia.org /B/BR/BROOKS.htm   (1092 words)

  
 Willamette Week | Screen
As in all of Brooks' comedies, The Muse attempts to solve its central conflict with a wonderfully inventive premise.
Brooks often populates his films with incredibly irritating characters (Julie Hagerty's Linda in Lost in America, Debbie Reynolds' role as Mother), and Sarah is no exception.
Brooks surely believes he's made a wry and cynical picture about Hollywood's lack of creativity and inspiration.
www.wweek.com /html/screena082599.html   (860 words)

  
 Phillips girls toppled in area Prep clash   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Phillips (9-3) bounced back with six straight points of its own, but Brooks went ahead for good on a runner by North Andover's Jaime Gilbert (21 points).
Brooks lost the last two meetings with the Big Blue by an average of 25.5 points, but it returned an excellent nucleus of senior point guard Kaylan Tildsley (12 points yesterday), along with juniors Gilbert and Haverhill's Mary Hart (10), both Eagle-Tribune All-Stars.
Brooks (52): Tildsley 4-2-12, Russell 3-0-7, Hart 4-0-10, Mulligan 1-0-2, Gilbert 9-3-21, Logan 0-0-0.
www.eagletribune.com /news/stories/20030131/SP_002.htm   (522 words)

  
 Phillips Brooks House Celebrates 100th Anniversary
Sponsored by the Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA), the celebration featured a talk by Peter Gomes, the Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church.
An Episcopal minister and the author of the Christmas carol "O Little Town of Bethlehem," Brooks was renowned for his sermons at Trinity Church in Copley Square, as well as for his support of undergraduate volunteer efforts at Harvard.
Brooks died in 1893 at the age of 60.
www.news.harvard.edu /gazette/2000/01.27/pbha.html   (575 words)

  
 Phillips Brooks and Helen Keller
Phillips Brooks was the most famous preacher of his generation in America -- an honor few clergy of his Church have been able to claim.
Phillips Brooks could not reveal everything about himself, for he knew that to do so would have been to sweep everything away.
Phillips Brooks was a gift to the ages, but it still would have been better if he could have been accepted and celebrated in the totality of who he was.
www.rci.rutgers.edu /~lcrew/joyanyway/joy232.html   (1274 words)

  
 John F. Woolverton / The Education of Phillips Brooks
The Education of Phillips Brooks probes the formative years of one of the best-known figures of Victorian America's "Gilded Age." Rigorously researched, bringing as yet untapped archival material into play, John F. Woolverton's book is an extremely readable and fascinating look at a gifted, persuasive clergyman and public figure.
Although Brooks was not a major theologian, he was nurtured in an atmosphere of serious religious thought.
Woolverton places Brooks in his cultural context and shows how this religious leader was shaped psychologically and by his times and how those factors helped him forge a spiritual ideal for a troubled nation.
www.press.uillinois.edu /f95/woolvert.html   (358 words)

  
 Franklin Favorite Online
The 42-year-old Phillips led Franklin-Simpson to back-to-back Class 3-A state championships in 1979 and 1980 and went on to set several receiving records as a four-year starter at the University of Kentucky.
Brooks, a former defensive coordinator of the Atlanta Falcons, met Phillips at a pro camp.
Phillips then served as an assistant at University of Cincinnati (1997-98), University of Minnesota (1999-2000), Notre Dame (2001) and University of South Carolina (2002).
www.franklinfavorite.com /articles/stories/public/200412/09/joker1294.html   (560 words)

  
 Phillips Brooks puts Woodside land up for sale (August 20, 2003)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Phillips Brooks School operates at the old La Loma school site on Avy Avenue in Menlo Park, which it leases from the Las Lomitas School District.
Phillips Brooks officials subsequently withdrew the project's application rather than revise the project again or file an appeal to the Town Council.
Meanwhile, Phillips Brooks officials are keeping their eyes open for opportunities to find a permanent home for the school.
www.almanacnews.com /morgue/2003/2003_08_20.pbs.html   (494 words)

  
 Phillips Brooks --  Encyclopædia Britannica
She was Gwendolyn Brooks, poet laureate of Illinois and the first African American winner of a Pulitzer prize for poetry.
Brook became involved in theater at a young age and had directed several shows before he graduated from Oxford University at age 19.
It was founded by Duncan Phillips and is housed in his former residence, which was built in 1897.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9016645?&query=phillips   (618 words)

  
 PSN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Through Phillips Brooks House Association and other student groups, Harvard conducted hundreds of community service programs throughout the Boston area and even overseas.
Today his bust greets entrants to Phillips Brooks House, his appellation rests inscribed in the pulpit of Harvard's Memorial Church, and his image shines down upon dining freshmen from the towering stained glass walls of Harvard's Memorial Hall.
Brooks became the rector of Trinity Church in 1869, an imposing stone gothic structure that he designed along with his friend, the architect H.H. Richardson (another Harvard graduate).
www.fas.harvard.edu /~pbh/psn/history.htm   (543 words)

  
 Anglican Theological Review: Education of Phillips Brooks, The   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Real preaching, said Brooks, is "truth through personality." And the "truest statement" of the gospel, he added, "is not in dogma but in personal life," and the preacher must show "in his character, his affections, his whole intellectual and moral being" the truth of the living Christ.
From an early age Phillips Brooks showed an energetic mind and a critical spirit, as John F. Woolverton relates in his engaging study.
The domestic household in which young Brooks was reared delighted in intellectual stimulation and here the vivid sense of imagination and expression of feeling that would blossom in adulthood were first cultivated.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3818/is_199810/ai_n8825027   (893 words)

  
 Phillips Brooks House To Celebrate Centennial
The Phillips Brooks House Association Inc. (PBHA), the oldest and largest volunteer public service organization at Harvard College, is rededicating its home, the historic Phillips Brooks House, on the centennial of its original dedication, Sunday, Jan. 23, 2000.
Paine was a lifelong friend of Phillips Brooks, the great Boston Episcopal preacher for whom Phillips Brooks House was named.
Brooks was an 1855 graduate of Harvard College, overseer of the University, and rector of Trinity Church in Copley Square.
www.news.harvard.edu /gazette/2000/01.20/pbh.html   (391 words)

  
 Phillips Brooks
Phillips Brooks is best known today as the author of "O Little Town of Bethlehem." Former generations, however, accounted him the greatest American preacher of the nineteenth century (and not for lack of other candidates).
He was born in Boston in 1835 and educated at Harvard and at Virginia Theological Seminary.
More information may be found at the Phillips Brooks page.
satucket.com /lectionary/Phillips_Brooks.htm   (98 words)

  
 January 23: Phillips Brooks, defender of Trinity doctrine, Died
Descended from the earliest Puritans of Massachusetts, Phillips Brooks studied at Harvard.
Brooks loved children and wrote the song for the youngsters in his Sunday School when he was rector of Philadelphia's Holy Trinity Church.
That explains why, when Brooks died on January 23, 1893, a five year old was upset because she had not seen her preacher friend for several days.
chi.gospelcom.net /DAILYF/2003/01/daily-01-23-2003.shtml   (631 words)

  
 CityBeat: Holy Zeus! (1999-08-26)
Brooks, like Allen, is a rare cinematic bird: a true comedian auteur who writes, directs and acts in his own films, although that's where most of their moviemade similarities end.
Phillips is a sensible man, who when faced with a career crisis, grasps at any extreme remedy, no matter how absurd, to put matters back on track.
But what has stayed the same is Brooks' distinctive voice: a non-stop symphony of whining pitches that flavors every spoken word with a jolt of sarcastic cynicism.
www.citybeat.com /1999-08-26/film2.shtml   (1340 words)

  
 BROOKS, PHILLIPS (1835-1893) - Online Information article about BROOKS, PHILLIPS (1835-1893)
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encyclopedia.jrank.org /BRI_BUN/BROOKS_PHILLIPS_1835_1893_.html   (931 words)

  
 LIGHT VIEWS FILM REVIEW: THE MUSE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Sarah tells Phillips to consider her expenses an investment in his future in Hollywood, yet the exuberant hotel bills (she can only stay in the most luxurious suite) and constant errands begin to take their toll on him.
It also causes discord between Phillips and his lovely wife Laura (Andie McDowell), who suspects that her husband is having an affair.
It's not long before Phillips is hammering out a hit comedy for Jim Carrey, while Laura explores her dream of becoming a famous cook.
www.lightviews.com /musefilmreview.htm   (761 words)

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