About James Luther Adams
James Luther Adams, an American professor at Harvard Divinity School, Andover Newton Theological School, and Meadville Lombard Theological School, and a Unitarian parish minister, was the most influential theologian among American Unitarian Universalists in the 20th century. 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. While there, he became a member of the First Unitarian Church of Chicago and served on its board of trustees. In 1962 he became part of the first board of directors for the Society for the Arts, Religion and Contemporary Culture. 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.
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