Henry Ware, Jr.

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This article is about the Unitarian theologian. For his father the preacher, and for other people of this name, see Henry Ware (disambiguation).

Henry Ware, Jr. (April 21, 1794 - September 22, 1843) was an influential Unitarian theologian, early member of the faculty of Harvard Divinity School, and first president of the Harvard Musical Association. He was a mentor of Ralph Waldo Emerson when Emerson studied for the ministry in the 1820s.

The son of Henry Ware, he was born in Hingham, Massachusetts. After completing attending Phillips Academy, Andover and his Harvard A.B. in 1812, Ware was minister of the Unitarian Second Church in Boston beginning in 1817. In 1830 Ware left the Second Church's pulpit, with Emerson replacing him there, and moved to Harvard Divinity School. In 1831 he published On the Formation of the Christian Character, a manual on morality and his best-known work. After Emerson's Divinity School Address in 1838, Ware became more distant from his former student and friend, publishing The Personality of the Deity as a rebuttal of Emerson's views in the same year.