The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/James, Henry (theologian)

JAMES, Henry, American Swedenborgian theologian: b. Albany, N. Y., 3 June 1811; d. Cambridge, Mass., 18 Dec 1882. He was educated at Union College and Princeton Theological Seminary, traveled abroad and became a Sandemanian and later a Swedenborgian. He subsequently lived in New York, Newport, R. I., and lastly at Cambridge. Among the most noted of his works on morals and religion are &lsquo;What is the State?&rsquo; (1845); &lsquo;Moralism and Christianity&rsquo; (1852); &lsquo;Lectures and Miscellanies&rsquo; (1852); &lsquo;The Nature of Evil&rsquo; (1855); &lsquo;Christianity the Logic of Creation&rsquo; (1857); &lsquo;Substance and Shadow&rsquo; (1863); &lsquo;The Secret of Swedenborg&rsquo; (1869). His &lsquo;Literary Remains,&rsquo; edited by William James, appeared in 1885. He was the father of William and Henry James (qq.v.).