Preaching and Paganism

The author examines the predicament of Christian preaching amid modern subjectivism and rising individualism, surveying ministerial roles (teacher, pastor, visionary) and tracing how humanism and naturalism have depersonalized religious language and practice. He contrasts religious and classical cultural impulses, analyzes moral themes — grace, knowledge, virtue — and argues for renewing worship and doctrine as chief avenues to transcendence. Rather than offering definitive solutions, he reasserts neglected emphases in religious experience and proposes practical and theological adjustments intended to reconcile contemporary thought and conduct with the enduring claims of spiritual life.