Edwards Amasa Parr, an American theologian, born in Providence, R. I., Dec. 29, 1808. He graduated at Brown university in 1826, and at Andover theological seminary in 1831, when he was ordained pastor of the second Congregational church in Braintree, Mass. In 1835 he became professor of moral and intellectual philosophy in Amherst college, in 1836 Bartlett professor of sacred rhetoric at Andover, and in 1847 Abbot professor of Christian theology there, which post he still holds (1875). He has contributed extensively to periodical literature, and has been one of the editors of the "Bibliotheca Sacra" from the beginning. He translated with Prof. B. B. Edwards a volume of " German Selections " (1839); and has edited the M Writings of Rev. William Bradford Homer," with a memoir (1842); a volume on homiletics called "The Preacher and Pastor," with an introductory essay (1845); the "Writings of Prof. B. B. Edwards," with a memoir (2 vols., 1853); and with Drs. Phelps and Lowell Mason the " Sabbath Hymn Book " (1858). In 1859 he assisted in editing a volume of " Discourses and Treatises on the Atonement," for which he wrote an introductory treatise on " The Rise of the Edwardean Theory of the Atonement." In 1861, with Dr. Phelps and the Rev. D. L. Fur-ber, he published a critical volume on hym-nology, entitled" Hymns and Choirs." He has also published memoirs of Dr. Samuel Hopkins (1852), and Dr. Nathanael Emmons (1861), prefixed to editions of their works.