Albert Parker Fitch

Albert Parker Fitch (1877–1944) was an American Congregational minister, theological educator, and writer. Contemporary notices from Harvard describe him as a member of the class of 1900 who studied at Union Theological Seminary, was ordained in 1903, and served briefly as pastor of the First Church in Flushing, Long Island.

He went on to become president of Andover Theological Seminary in 1909. Later notices describe him as a professor of the history of religion at Amherst College, showing the shift in his career from parish ministry and seminary leadership to college teaching and religious scholarship.

Fitch is especially remembered for Preaching and Paganism (1920), published by Yale University Press as part of the Lyman Beecher Lectureship on Preaching. The book reflects his interest in how religion, culture, and modern intellectual life meet, and it still gives a clear sense of the questions liberal Protestant thinkers were wrestling with in the early twentieth century.