Henry Ware was a preacher

Preacher

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 and theologian influential in the formation of Unitarianism

Unitarianism

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 and the American Unitarian Association

American Unitarian Association

The American Unitarian Association was a religious denomination in the United States and Canada, formed by associated Unitarian congregations in 1825. In 1961, it merged with the Universalist Church of America to form the Unitarian Universalist Association.According to Mortimer Rowe, the Secretary...

 in the United States

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.

Born in Sherborn, Massachusetts

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, Ware was educated at Harvard College

Harvard College

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, earning his A.B. in 1785. He was from 1787 to 1805 the minister of the First Parish in Hingham, Massachusetts

Hingham, Massachusetts

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. In 1805 he was elected to the Hollis Chair

Hollis Chair

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 at Harvard, precipitating a controversy between Unitarians and more conservative Calvinists. He took part in the formation of the Harvard Divinity School

Harvard Divinity School

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 and the establishment of Unitarianism there in the following decades, publishing his debates with eminent Calvinists in the 1820s. His son, Henry Ware, Jr.

Henry Ware, Jr.

Henry Ware, Jr. was an influential Unitarian theologian, early member of the faculty of Harvard Divinity School, and first president of the Harvard Musical Association. He was a mentor of Ralph Waldo Emerson when Emerson studied for the ministry in the 1820s.The son of Henry Ware, he was born in...

, followed his father as a Harvard Divinity professor and Unitarian theologian.

External links

• Ware biography from The Unitarians and the Universalists by David Robinson