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Orval Hobart Mowrer (1907-1982) was a professor of psychology at the [[University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign|University of Illinois]] (1948-1975). He is remembered in part for his anti-modernist Christian-friendly views and his disappointment in the modernist movement he found in the mainline [[Presbyterian]] Church; see his book ''The Crisis in Psychiatry and Religion'' (1961).
Orval Hobart Mowrer (1907-1982) was a professor of psychology at the [[University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign|University of Illinois]] (1948-1975). He is remembered in part for his anti-modernist Christian-friendly views and his disappointment in the modernist movement he found in the mainline [[Presbyterian]] Church; see his book ''The Crisis in Psychiatry and Religion'' (1961).
Professor Mowrer believed that modern psychology is based on false conclusions made by [[Freud]] (e.g., [[Darwinian]] assumptions) and that mainline Christian churches became sick—unable to aid those in need—when they adopted many of these same views.<ref>''The Crisis in Psychiatry and Religion'', O.H. Mowrer, 1961, D. Van Nostrand</ref>
Professor Mowrer believed that modern psychology is based on false conclusions made by [[Freud]] (e.g., [[Darwinian]] assumptions) and that mainline Christian churches became sick—unable to aid those in need—when they adopted many of these same views.<ref name=1961>''The Crisis in Psychiatry and Religion'', O.H. Mowrer, 1961, D. Van Nostrand</ref>
{cquote|Has Evangelical religion sold its birthright for a mess of psychological pottage?<ref name=1961>}
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