Stephen Johnson

Stephen Johnson (1724–1786) was a Connecticut clergyman and theologian whose writings bridged Enlightenment political philosophy and Reformed Protestant thought during the American Revolutionary era. His treatise *Integrity and Piety the Best Principles of a Good Administration of Government* articulated a vision of civic virtue grounded in Christian ethics, influencing colonial debates about the moral foundations of republican governance. Johnson's work exemplified the intellectual currents of late eighteenth-century New England, where theological concerns remained inseparable from questions of political legitimacy and social order.