biography
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| lived:
| (1811–82)
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| biography:
| Religious philosopher, born in Albany, New York, USA. Heir to a large fortune, he left Princeton Theological Seminary in 1837, and abandoned institutional religion. He was at first attracted to Sandemanism, a pietistic sect encountered on a trip to England, but his writings were more permanently influenced by the teachings of Swedenborg, which interpreted human nature as a collective spiritual being identified with God. James became better known as the father of William and Henry James, whose European education he supervised in the 1850s. |
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