Samuel Langdon

Samuel Langdon (1723–1797) was an American Congregationalist minister and biblical scholar whose theological writings, particularly *The Republic of the Israelites*, sought to reconcile Calvinist orthodoxy with emerging republican political theory during the Revolutionary era. As president of Harvard College and a prominent voice in New England Protestantism, Langdon articulated a vision of biblical governance that influenced American religious thought on the relationship between divine law and civil liberty. His work exemplified the eighteenth-century effort to ground revolutionary ideology in scriptural authority, positioning ancient Israel as a model for Christian republicanism.