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Andrew Lee
1745–1832
A longtime Connecticut minister and early American religious writer, he is best known for sermons that wrestle with difficult passages of scripture and the moral questions of his day. His work offers a window into the theological debates and church life of the early United States.
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About the author
Born in Lyme, Connecticut, in 1745, Andrew Lee became a Congregational minister after graduating from Yale in 1766. He was ordained in 1768 and spent most of his career serving the church in Hanover, now part of Lisbon, Connecticut.
Lee also took part in the Revolutionary era, serving for a time in 1777 as chaplain to Colonel Durkee's Fourth Connecticut Regiment. Later in life he was a member of the Yale Corporation from 1807 to 1823, and Harvard awarded him a Doctor of Divinity degree in 1809.
He is remembered chiefly for his religious writing, especially Sermons on Various Important Subjects (1803), a collection that shows his interest in explaining challenging biblical texts with clarity and conviction. He died in 1832.