Moses Mather

Moses Mather (1719–1806) was a Connecticut clergyman and theologian whose Election Sermon of 1781 articulated Reformed Protestant principles during the American Revolutionary period, bridging Calvinist doctrine with emerging republican political theory. His theological writings, grounded in the Puritan intellectual tradition, addressed the relationship between divine sovereignty and human liberty at a critical moment in American religious and political development. Mather's contributions to New England ministerial discourse reflected the broader intellectual currents of late eighteenth-century American Protestantism as it adapted to revolutionary social change.