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Albert Parker Fitch
1877–1944
A liberal Protestant minister and religious writer, he explored how faith could speak honestly to the modern world. His best-known work, Preaching and Paganism, asks how religion can keep its depth and force in an age of secular habits and social change.
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Preaching and Paganism
by Albert Parker Fitch
About the author
Born in Roxbury, Massachusetts, on March 6, 1877, Albert Parker Fitch was an American clergyman, teacher, and author whose work centered on religion, preaching, and the place of faith in modern life. Records and library catalogs connect him with a substantial body of religious writing, including Preaching and Paganism and The College Course and the Preparation for Life.
Contemporary and library sources show him serving in theological and academic roles, including at Andover Theological Seminary and later as professor of the history of religion at Amherst College. He became known as a thoughtful liberal Protestant voice, and period coverage from the 1920s also places him in the public religious debates of his day.
His writing is still remembered for taking modern doubt and changing social values seriously rather than dismissing them. He died in 1944, leaving behind books and sermons that reflect a period when American religious thinkers were trying to reconcile inherited belief with the pressures of the twentieth century.