Phillips Brooks (1835–1893)

Author of Lectures on Preaching: The Yale Lectures on Preaching, 1877

About the Author

Includes the names: Phillip Brooks, Phillips Brooks, Phillips Brooks, bp Phillips Brooks, Rev. Phillips Brooks, Bishop Phillips Brooks, D. D. Rev. Phillips Brooks, Rt. Rev Phillips Brooks, D.D., D.D. RT. REV. PHILLIPS BROOKS, Phillips Brooks Right Reverend, Right Reverend Phillips. D.D. Brooks

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Works by Phillips Brooks

O Little Town of Bethlehem: A Pageant of Lights (2004) 134 copies

The Joy of Preaching (1989) 122 copies

Addresses (1893) 69 copies

Sermons Preached in English Churches (2009) 31 copies, 1 review

The Consolations of God: Great Sermons of Phillips Brooks (2003) 28 copies

The Light of the World and Other Sermons (2009) 24 copies

Sermons (1883) 22 copies

The candle of the Lord, and other sermons (2004) 22 copies

On preaching (1965) 21 copies

The influence of Jesus (2007) 19 copies

New Starts in Life; And Other Sermons (1896) 17 copies

Twenty Sermons (2010) 17 copies

Phillips Brooks: Selected Sermons (1949) 15 copies

Seeking life, and other sermons (1904) 14 copies

The law of growth and other sermons (2022) 14 copies

Sermons for the principal festivals and fasts of the church year (2010) 13 copies

Visions and Tasks and Other Sermons (2010) 13 copies

Letters of travel (2007) 11 copies

The Battle of Life, and Other Sermons (2011) 10 copies

The Purpose and Use of Comfort (2007) 10 copies

Phillips Brooks Year Book (2019) 9 copies

Essays and Addresses: Religious, Literary and Social (1894) 9 copies

The excellence of our calling; an abridgment of Phillips Brooks' Lectures on preaching, by Thomas F. Chilcote, Jr (1954) 7 copies

O Little Town of Bethlehem. A Stocking Stuffer Pop-Up Book (1994) 7 copies

The First Christmas (2021) 6 copies

The mystery of iniquity: And other sermons (1898) 5 copies

Perfect Freedom. Phillips Brooks' Addresses (1893) 4 copies

The law of growth 4 copies

Sermons For The Church Year (1895) 3 copies

The battle of life : and other sermons : sixth series 2 copies

Heart's-ease 2 copies

Brooks' addresses (1906) 2 copies

Spirit of Christmas (1900) 2 copies

The beauty of a life of service 2 copies

Brilliants : selected from the writings of the Right Reverend Phillips Brooks 2 copies

Conférences sur la prédication (1884) 2 copies

The more abundant life; Lenten readings, selected chiefly from unpublished manuscripts of the Rev. Phillips Brooks 2 copies

The Duty of the Christian Businessman 2 copies

Perrenials 2 copies

The Mystery of Iniquity 2 copies

Flowers From Phillips Brooks (1906) 2 copies

New Starts in Life 2 copies

O Little Town of Bethlehem — Lyricist — 1 copy

The Candle of the Lord 1 copy, 1 review

Model Kits from Around the World Pocketbond Limited 2008/9 Catalogue 1 copy

“Collector’s Edition” Good Cheer for a Year 1896 [Premium Leather Bound] 1 copy

“Collector’s Edition” The Light of the World: And Other Sermons Volume 5 1890 [Premium Leather Bound] 1 copy

O Little Town of Bethlehem — Lyricist — 1 copy

Good cheer for a year 1 copy

Model Kits from Around the World Pocketbond Limited 2005/6 [Catalogue] With over 2,000 plastic model kits 1 copy

O Little Town of Bethlehem 1 copy

The Addresses of Phillip Brooks (1900) 1 copy

O Little Town of Bethlehem — Lyricist — 1 copy

Sermons: Vol. II 1 copy

Thought and action 1 copy

The Candle of the Lord 1 copy

Daily thoughts from Phillips Brooks 1 copy

Alexander Hamilton Vinton: A Memorial Sermon preached at Emmanuel Church, Boston Sunday evening May 15, 1881 and at the Church of the Holy Trinity, Philadelphia Sunday morning May… 1 copy

Essays and addresses, religious, literary and social. Volume 2 1 copy

Best methods of promoting spiritual life 1 copy

The voice of the Christ-child: a Christmas carol (1891) 1 copy

Brilliants from the writings of Phillips Brooks...1893 1 copy

Tolerance, two lectures addressed to the students of several of the divinity schools of the Protestant Episcopal church 1 copy

Brilliants from Phillips Brooks 1 copy

Our Burden Bearer 1 copy

The Bohlen Lectures, 1879. The Influence of Jesus: Delivered in the Church of the Holy Trinity, Philadelphia, in February, 1879 (2016) 1 copy

The Life And Death Of Abraham Lincoln: A Sermon Preached At The Church Of The Holy Trinity, Philadelphia (2010) 1 copy

The Candle of the Lord and Nine Other Sermons (2015) 1 copy

Brilliants: Selected from the writings of The Right Reverend Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts (1893) 1 copy

The Christ in Whom Christians Believe 1 copy

The Yale lectures on preaching 1 copy

Duty 1 copy

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One Hundred and One Famous Poems (1916) — Contributor, some editions — 2,316 copies, 21 reviews

Hymns of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (1985) — Contributor — 318 copies, 3 reviews

The Company of Preachers: Wisdom on Preaching, Augustine to the Present (2002) — Contributor — 198 copies, 2 reviews

American Religious Poems: An Anthology (2006) — Contributor — 185 copies, 2 reviews

Storytelling and Other Poems (1949) — Contributor — 99 copies, 2 reviews

Music for the Family (Childcraft) (1954) — Contributor — 53 copies

A Golden Land (1958) — Contributor — 46 copies, 1 review

Christmas in the heart [sound recording] (2009) — Lyricist — 39 copies, 1 review

A Christmas Cornucopia (2010) — Composer — 26 copies

Christmas Classics: A Treasury for Latter-Day Saints (1995) — Contributor — 16 copies

Rabid [2019 Film] (2019) — Actor — 5 copies

O Little Town of Bethlehem: S.A.T.B. Organ — Lyricist — 2 copies

A star-spangled Christmas : Tuesday, 20th. December 2022 [order of service] (2022) — Poet — 1 copy

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Common Knowledge

Birthdate: 1835-12-13
Date of death: 1893-01-23
Gender: male
Education: Harvard University (BA|1855)
Virginia Theological Seminary (BD|Alexandria ∙ Virginia ∙ USA ∙ 1859)
Occupations: clergy (Episcopal)
author
bishop (Massachusetts ∙ Episcopal Church ∙ 1891-1893)
writer
Episcopal priest
Episcopal Bishop of Massachsetts
Organizations: Church of the Advent, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA (deacon)
Church of the Holy Trinity, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA (rector ∙ 1862)
Trinity Church, Boston, Massachusetts, USA (rectror ∙ 1869)
Episcopal Church
Awards and honors: The Hall of Fame for Great Americans (1910)
Nationality: USA
Birthplace: Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Places of residence: Arlington, Virginia, USA
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Place of death: Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Burial location: Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Associated Place (for map): Massachusetts, USA

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4 reviews

Tower_Bob 99 reviews

Sermons preached in English churches by Phillips Brooks

I used this book for devotional purposes and thought it quite good.

It is a little outdated, but still inspiring.

Mar 1, 2016

revg 10 reviews

The Candle of the Lord by Rev. Phillips Brooks

One of America's finest preachers of the late19th - early 20th century, this is a collection of 21 sermons deliveredEE to his congregation in Boston's Trinity Episcopal Church.

Oct 20, 2018