Henry Ware Jr. (April 21, 1794 – September 22, 1843) was an influential Unitarian

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, early member of the faculty of

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, and first president of the

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. He was a mentor of

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when Emerson studied for the ministry in the 1820s. The son of Henry Ware, he was born in

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. After attending

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and completing his Harvard A.B. in 1812, Ware was minister of the Unitarian Second Church in

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beginning in 1817. In 1830 Ware left the Second Church's pulpit, with Emerson replacing him there, and moved to Harvard Divinity School. In 1831 he published ''On the Formation of the Christian Character'', a manual on morality and his best-known work. After Emerson's "

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" in 1838, whose radical and unorthodox ideas greatly displeased many of the University faculty, Ware became more distant from his former student and friend, delivering the sermon "

The Personality of the Deity "The Personality of the Deity" is a sermon written and delivered by Henry Ware Jr. Background Ware presented the sermon on September 23, 1838,Wright, Conrad. "Introduction" to ''Three Prophets of Religious Liberalism: Channing, Emerson, Parker''. ...

" as a rebuttal of Emerson's views in the same year. In 1846 a biographical memoir of Henry Ware Jr. was published by his brother John Ware.

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Ware biography
from ''The Unitarians and the Universalists''

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