Jonas Clark

Jonas Clark (1730–1805) was a prominent New England Congregationalist minister whose theological writings and public sermons significantly shaped Revolutionary-era religious discourse. As pastor of the Lexington Church, Clark wielded considerable influence in connecting Protestant theology with American political resistance, most notably through his 1773 sermon commemorating the Boston Massacre, which framed colonial grievances within a providential narrative of religious liberty. His work exemplified the broader eighteenth-century phenomenon of American clergy leveraging pulpit authority to legitimize revolutionary ideology through theological argumentation.