Après avoir lu ce livre on se demande qui osera encore se faire appeler pasteur ? Alexandre Vinet y développe un idéal si élevé du ministère évangélique qu'il risque d'effrayer ceux qui en ont reçu la vocation. Cependant, en réaffirmant avec clarté et solennité le sérieux et la consécration qui devraient caractériser les serviteurs de Christ à plein temps dans son Église, la théologie pastorale de Vinet apportera un contraste très stimulant et très profitable avec l'amateurisme de notre époque.
Alexandre Vinet was born near Lausanne in Switzerland. Educated for the Protestant ministry, he was ordained in 1819, when already teacher of the French language and literature in the gymnasium at Basel; and throughout his life he was as much a critic as a theologian. His literary criticism brought him into contact with Augustin Sainte-Beuve, for whom he obtained an invitation to lecture at Lausanne, which led to his famous work on Port-Royal.
As a theologian Vinet gave a fresh impulse to Protestant theology, especially in French-speaking lands, but also in England and elsewhere. His philosophy relied strongly on conscience, defined as that by which man stands in direct personal relation with God as moral sovereign, and the seat of a moral individuality which nothing can rightly infringe.
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