Henry James

Henry James (born June 3, 1811, Albany, N.Y., U.S.—died Dec. 18, 1882, Cambridge, Mass.) was an American philosophical theologian, the father of the novelist Henry James and the philosopher William James. A graduate of Union College, Schenectady, N.Y. (1830), James worked in business and law and then studied at Princeton Theological Seminary (1835–37). Although he was reared in a strict Presbyterian family, he was repelled by orthodox Protestantism and gave up adherence to institutional religion....