James Orr (theologian)

James Orr (1844–6 September 1913[1]) was a Scottish Presbyterian minister and professor of church history and then theology.

in Philosophy of Mind, and after graduating from the theological college of the United Presbyterian Church, he was ordained a minister in Hawick.

from Glasgow University, and in the early 1890s delivered a series of lectures that later became the influential The Christian View of God and the World.

Orr was a vocal critic of theological liberalism (of Albrecht Ritschl especially) and helped establish Christian fundamentalism.

Orr wrote that "evolution is coming to be recognized as but a new name for 'creation', only that the creative power now works from within, instead of, as in the old conception, in an external plastic fashion.