Jason Haven

Jason Haven (1733–1786) was a Congregational minister and theologian whose work exemplified the intellectual currents of late eighteenth-century New England Protestantism. His election sermon represents an important contribution to the genre of political theology in Revolutionary America, wherein ministers articulated connections between religious covenant and civic responsibility. Haven's theological writings reflect the transitional period between Calvinist orthodoxy and the emerging evangelical movements that would reshape American religious life in the early republic.