Edward Dorr

Edward Dorr was an eighteenth-century American clergyman whose theological writings engaged with the relationship between civil government and religious institutions during a formative period in American ecclesiastical history. His work *The Duty of Civil Rulers to Be Nursing Fathers to the Church of Christ* articulated arguments for governmental support of religious establishments, reflecting the transitional debates between colonial establishment traditions and emerging principles of religious liberty. Dorr's contributions to this discourse illuminate the theological foundations underlying early American discussions of church-state relations.