Preaching and Paganism

by Albert Parker Fitch

Aut quia non amantes te

Aeternis punis igne.

"Nee praemii illius spe

Sed sicut tu amasti me

Sic amo et amabo te

Solem, quia Rex meus est."

What, then, has been the final effect of humanism upon preaching? It has tempted the preacher to depersonalize religion. And since love is the essence of personality, it has thereby stripped preaching of the emotional energy, of the universal human interests and the prophetic insight which only love can bestow. Over against this depersonalization, we must find some way to return to expressing the religious view and utilizing the religious power of the human spirit.

Footnote 3: [(return) ]

See The Critique of Pure Reason (Müller, tr.), pp. 575 ff.

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Harvard Theo. Rev., vol. I, no. 1, p. 16.