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 synthesis of religious orthodoxy and emerging democratic ideals that characterized New England ministerial thought in the late eighteenth century.