Robert Breck

Robert Breck (1713–1784) was a New England Congregationalist minister whose theological writings engaged with Enlightenment political philosophy and the relationship between religious virtue and civic welfare. His treatise *The Only Method to Promote the Happiness of a People and Their Posterity* exemplifies eighteenth-century Protestant attempts to reconcile Reformed theology with emerging concepts of public happiness and social utility. Breck's work contributed to the intellectual currents that shaped American Revolutionary-era thought on the moral foundations of civil society.