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(Inimitable essays on the role of faith among the "communi...)
Inimitable essays on the role of faith among the "communion of free spirits," from Paul Tillich to Carl Sandburg, Jesus to Pope John XXIII, by a major force in American social ethics and liberal theology.
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Adams was born in Ritzville, Washington, the son of James Carey Adams, a farmer and itinerant Plymouth Brethren preacher. When Adams was 16, his father became extremely ill, and Adams left school to work on the Northern Pacific Railroad to help support the family.
AB, U.Minn., 1924; Bachelor of Sacred Theology, Harvard University, 1927. A.M., Harvard University, 1930. Doctor of Philosophy, University Chicago, 1945.
Doctor of Divinity, Meadville Theological School, Chicago, 1958. Theological D., Marburg University, Würzburg. Germany, 1960; Doctor of Hebrew Literature, Middlebury College, 1979.
In his family and in church, the Day of Judgment was constantly considered a very real possibility. He did well there and rose in management but dropped from this job to attend the University of Minnesota. After graduation from Harvard, Adams served as minister of the Second Church, Unitarian in Salem, Massachusetts, from 1927 to 1934, and the First Unitarian Society in Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts, from 1934 to 1935.
In 1937, Adams began a long career in academia by joining the faculty of Meadville Theological School (now Meadville Lombard Theological School) in Chicago.
In 1956, he became Professor of Christian Ethics at Harvard Divinity School, where he stayed until he retired in 1968. In 1962 he became part of the first board of directors for the Society for the Arts, Religion and Contemporary Culture.
A number of his students later became influential figures in Christian Ethics across the theological spectrum. Among them was Stephen Charles Mott, a pioneer in Evangelical Social Ethics in the United States of America who taught at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary for a quarter of a decade and currently President of the James Luther Adams Foundation.
Another one of Adams" students was Chris Hedges, author of War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning (2002).
After his retirement from Harvard, Adams taught at Andover Newton Theological School and Meadville Lombard Theological School. He is buried at Cambridge Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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In the mid-1930s, Adams spent considerable time in Germany, where he befriended several notable religious figures (including Karl Barth and Albert Schweitzer) who were active in clandestine resistance to the rise of Nazism.
Chairman advising committee department social responsibility Unitarian-Universalist Association, 1965-1969. Board directors Center for Volunteer Society, For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology, Inc., Massachusetts chapter American Civil Liberties Union, Center Applied Ethics, Massachusetts chapter Americans for Democratic Action. Chairman, Board Of Directors Fellowship Racial and Economics Equality.
Member of advisory board Americans United for Separation of Church and State. Fellow American Academy Arts and Science. Member Society Science Study of Religion (president 1957-1959), American Society Christian Ethics (president 1967-1968), American Theological Society (president 1972-1973), American Sociological Society, Societe Europeenne de Culture (international council), Society Art Religion and Contemporary Culture (Chairman.bd.
1971-1973, president 1984-1985, president emeritus 1986-1994), Council Religion and Law (board directors), Association for Volunteer Action Scholars (vice president 1971-1994), Society Political and Legal Philosophy.
Son of James Carey and Lella May (Barnett) A. M. Margaret Ann Young, September 21, 1927. Children: M. Eloise, Elaine Adams Miller, Barbara Thomas Thompson.
