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Albert Parker Fitch
1877–1944
A thoughtful American theologian and preacher, he wrote about the challenge of speaking to a modern, skeptical world. His work blends religious conviction with a clear interest in culture, education, and public life.
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Preaching and Paganism
by Albert Parker Fitch
About the author
Albert Parker Fitch was an American clergyman, theologian, and author born in 1877 and remembered for books including Preaching and Paganism and None So Blind. Early in his career he served as a pastor, and contemporary Harvard Crimson notices describe him as a graduate of Union Theological Seminary who held pastorates in Flushing, New York, and Boston before moving into theological education.
He went on to become president of Andover Theological Seminary in 1909, and later was associated with Park Avenue Presbyterian Church in New York, where he was noted in the press as a prominent modernist preacher. His writing often focused on how religious faith could speak honestly to the habits, doubts, and distractions of modern life.
Fitch's books suggest a writer interested not only in doctrine, but in character, society, and the moral pressures of everyday living. That makes his work feel broader than sermon literature alone: it speaks to readers curious about religion's place in the modern world.