A Once & Former Evangelical
Phillips Brooks: A Cautionary Tale
by Gillis J. Harp
As an Anglican Christian, I lay no claim to infallible interpretation of the past. Yet as a Christian who is also a practicing historian, I am often struck by how informed historical reflection can serve the Church.
Americans in general are especially prone to an unreflective presentism. Such a blinkered perspective has many shortcomings, including keeping us from a clear understanding of our contemporary predicament. In particular, it can serve to obscure how we as American Christians got here; that is, it can further veil the murky origins of the current rudderless state of mainline Protestantism. Never, I would argue, has f . . .
