Editing Phillips Brooks (section)

==Influence and legacy==

===Publications===

In 1877, Brooks published a course of lectures upon preaching that he had delivered at the theological school of [[Yale University]], and which are an expression of his own experience. In 1879, the ''[[Bohlen Lectures]] on The Influence of Jesus'' came out. In 1878, he published his first volume of sermons, and from time to time issued other volumes, including ''Sermons Preached in English Churches'' (1883) and ''"The Candle of the Lord" and Other Sermons'' (1895). Brooks was also famous and beloved for his collections of sermons, ''The Purpose and Use of Comfort'', first published in 1878, which includes the title sermon as well as: "The Withheld Completions of Life," "The Conqueror from Edom," "Keeping the Faith," "The Soul's Refuge in God," "The Man with One Talent," "The Food of Man, "The Symbol and the Reality," "Is It I?", and others.

Today, he is probably best known for authoring the [[Christmas carol]] "[[O Little Town of Bethlehem]]". Brooks also introduced [[Helen Keller]] to [[Christianity]] and to [[Anne Sullivan]].

===Awards and historical monuments===

Brooks's understanding of individuals and of other religious traditions gained a following across a broad segment of society, as well as increased support for the Episcopal Church. Within his lifetime, he received honorary degrees from Harvard (1877) and [[Columbia University|Columbia]] (1887), and the [[Doctor of Divinity]] degree by the [[University of Oxford]], England (1885).

In addition, his close ties with [[Harvard University]] led to the creation of Phillips Brooks House in [[Harvard Yard]], built seven years after his death. On January 23, 1900, it was dedicated to serve "the ideal of piety, charity, and hospitality". The Phillips Brooks House originally housed a Social Service Committee, which became the Phillips Brooks House Association in 1904. It ceased formal religious affiliation in the 1920s, but remains in operation as a student-run group of volunteer organizations. Brooks' theological alma mater, Virginia Theological Seminary, honors him with a statue outside its library.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.vts.edu/page/news-detail?pk=891856|title=Friday, December 20, 2013|access-date=17 April 2017}}</ref>

A statue of Phillips Brooks stands on the [[North Andover, Massachusetts]], Town Common, facing North Parish Church.
[[File:Phillips Brooks Statue on North Andover Common.jpg|thumb|Phillips Brooks Statue on North Andover Common]]
[[File:Plaque on rear base of Phillips Brooks Statue, North Andover Common.jpg|thumb|Plaque on rear base of Phillips Brooks Statue, North Andover Common]]
[[File:View of Phillips Brooks statue and North Parish.jpg|thumb|View of Phillips Brooks statue and North Parish on North Andover Common]]

[[Alexander Viets Griswold Allen]], an Episcopal clergyman and professor of ecclesiastical history at the [[Episcopal Divinity School]] in [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]], published several biographical works on Brooks. These included the two-volume ''Phillips Brooks, Life and Letters'' (1901) and the abbreviated and revised one-volume ''Phillips Brooks'' (1907), both published in New York. In 1961, Raymond W. Albright published another biography of Brooks entitled ''Focus on Infinity''. His contemporary biographer is Douglass Shand-Tucci, who published a chapter on the bishop in ''Ralph Adams Cram: an Architects Four Quests'' in 2005, and in 2009 on the website of Back Bay Historical/The Global Boston Perspective<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.backbayhistorical.org/Blog |title=Douglass Shand-Tucci &#124; BackBay Historical Blog |access-date=2014-02-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131211005748/http://www.backbayhistorical.org/blog/ |archive-date=2013-12-11 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and elaborated as "The Saint Bishop and the American Hagia Sophia" in an October 2009 lecture at the New England Historical Genealogical Society in Boston as part of "The Gods of Copley Square" series. Another contemporary biographer, examining the preacher's evangelical legacy, is Gillis J. Harp,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.touchstonemag.com/archives/article.php?id=14-02-023-f|title=Touchstone Archives: A Once & Former Evangelical|access-date=17 April 2017}}</ref> who has written a major study, ''Brahmin Prophet : Phillips Brooks and the Path of Liberal Protestantism''.

A private elementary school in Menlo Park, California{{snd}}[[Phillips Brooks School]]{{snd}}is named for him, as is [[Brooks School]] in his hometown of North Andover, Massachusetts, the latter founded by Endicott Peabody, who also founded the [[Groton School]]. The Brooks family founded a Brooks Memorial School in [[Cleveland, Ohio]], in 1874 in memory of Phillips' brother, the Rev. Frederic Brooks, who died in an accident in Cambridge. That school was sponsored in part by [[John D. Rockefeller]] and operated under the Brooks name until 1891; it currently operates under the name of the [[Hathaway Brown School]]. John S. White, first headmaster of the school in Cleveland, also founded a Phillips Brooks School in Philadelphia in 1904 that operated there until 1919.

The Episcopal Church remembers Phillips Brooks annually on January 23, the anniversary of his death.<ref name="liturgicalcalendar" /> He is buried in [[Mount Auburn Cemetery]] in [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.cyberhymnal.org/bio/b/r/o/brooks_p.htm |title=Phillips Brooks 1835–1893 |access-date=2014-01-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304105926/http://www.cyberhymnal.org/bio/b/r/o/brooks_p.htm |archive-date=2016-03-04 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/113277230/burial-of-bishops-brooks-and-dwenger/ |title=Burial of Bishops Brooks and Dwenger |date=1893-01-27 |newspaper=[[St. Louis Globe-Democrat]] |page=4 |via=[[Newspapers.com]] |access-date=2022-11-18}}{{Open access}}</ref>