Noah Hobart

Noah Hobart (1706–1769) was a Connecticut Congregational minister and theologian whose writings on civil government and social order reflected the intellectual currents of mid-eighteenth-century New England Protestantism. His treatise *Civil Government the Foundation of Social Happiness* articulated a Reformed perspective on the relationship between ecclesiastical and civil authority during a period of increasing colonial self-consciousness and theological debate. Hobart's work contributed to the broader discourse on natural law and Christian governance that would inform both Revolutionary-era political thought and the development of American religious institutions.