Courage…is the indispensable requisite of any true ministry… Courage is good everywhere, but it is necessary here. If you are afraid of men and a slave to their opinion, go and do something else. Go and make shoes to fit them… But do not keep on all your life preaching sermons which shall say not what God sent you to declare, but what they hire you to say.

Phillips Brooks (1835–1893), Geistlicher

Topics: Courage & Strength, Church & Congregation

Phillips Brooks

Phillips Brooks war ein US-amerikanischer Geistlicher und Bischof der Episkopalkirche im 19. Jahrhundert, der vor allem als einflussreicher Kanzelredner an der Trinity Church in Boston wirkte. Bekannt wurde der Vertreter der liberalen „Broad Church“-Strömung als Textdichter des Weihnachtsliedes „O Little Town of Bethlehem“ sowie durch seine Definition der Predigt als Vermittlung von Wahrheit durch Persönlichkeit. Heutigen Bibellesern begegnet er vor allem durch Zitate, die eine persönliche Christusbeziehung, Seelsorge und tätige Nächstenliebe über dogmatische Streitigkeiten stellen.

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