ABSTRACT
Phillips Brooks is considered one of the greatest preachers in American church history. Brooks was educated at Harvard and Virginia Theological Seminary. Brooks was first and foremost a preacher. He delivered the Lyman Beecher Lectures on Preaching at Yale Divinity School in 1877. He began his introductory Beecher Lecture with a definition of preaching and a simple explanation: 'preaching is the communication of truth by man to men. In applying Christology to preaching, 'Brooks argued that if only an incarnate God can speak of and convince another of the power of God, then only when that word is incarnate in preaching can God's word be spoken a new. E. Clowes Chorley described Brooks as "the apostle of tolerance'. William Wilson Manross states that Brooks was the 'most famous' representative of liberalism in the Episcopal Church at this time. Brooks tended to look past denominational differences to focus on conversion and salvation in Christ.
