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Although widely condemned by University faculty, Emerson's address was very popular among students, many of whom, as Unitarian ministers, led their congregations towards Emerson's ideology. Accordingly, Ware's sermon never received the wide attention and study that Emerson's address did.
46:, delivered a few months earlier. Because of the wide circulation of Emerson's address among non-Divinity students, Ware found it necessary, after a lengthy exchange of letters with Emerson, to present his response to the entire University community during the next term. 57:. The sermon is generally regarded as one of Ware's best works and marks a turning point in the perceptions of true 162: 65:
who had just fifty years before controlled the University, the departure of the Trinitarians and the rise of both
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ideas and reasserted, as the title suggests, the willful personality of
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Ware presented the sermon on September 23, 1838, in the chapel of
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Three Prophets of Religious Liberalism: Channing, Emerson, Parker
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Index

Henry Ware Jr.
Harvard University
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Divinity School Address
pantheist
God
Unitarianism
Trinitarians
transcendentalism
secular humanism
Unitarianism
ISBN
1558962867
Henry Ware Jr.
The Personality of the Deity
Memoir of the Life of Henry Ware Junior
Boston
American Unitarian Association
Categories
Christian sermons
Harvard Divinity School
1838 in Massachusetts
1830s speeches
1838 works
September 1838 events

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