The age of reason
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The age of reason
（Broadview editions）
Broadview Press, c2011
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The age of reason : being an investigation of true and of fabulous theology
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Originally published under the title: The age of reason : being an investigation of true and of fabulous theology
Chronology: p. 33-35
Bibliography: p. 189-190
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The Age of Reason is one of the most influential defences of Deism (the idea that God can be known without organized religion) ever written. This edition presents Part 1, Paine's controversial philosophical argument against revealed religion, with representative excerpts of his biblical analysis from Parts 2 and 3.
Appendices include numerous selections from Paine's other religious writing, his Deist influences, and his contemporary opposition.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Thomas Paine: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Text
The Age of Reason
Part 1
Selections from Part 2
Selections from Part 3
Appendix A: Additional Writings on Religion by Thomas Paine
A Letter, Being an Answer to a Friend on the Publication of The Age of Reason (1797)
"The Existence of God." A Discourse Delivered at the Society of Theophilanthropists (1797)
"An Answer to the Bishop of Llandaff" (1797-1800)
"Worship and Church Bells: A Letter to Camille Jordan" (1797)
Exchange of Letters with Samuel Adams (1802-03)
"Of the Word Religion, and Other Words of Uncertain Signification" (1804)
"My Private Thoughts on a Future State" (1807)
Appendix B: The Religious Context of The Age of Reason
From Anthony Collins, A Discourse of Free-Thinking (1713)
From David Hume, "Of Miracles" (1748)
From Paul Henri Thiry, Baron d'Holbach, Of the Confused and Contradictory Ideas of Theology (1770)
Thomas Jefferson, An Act for Establishing Religious Freedom (1779) and A Letter to Peter Carr (1787)
From William Paley, Natural Theology (1802)
Appendix C: Responses to The Age of Reason
From "A Layman" [Thomas Williams], The Age of Infidelity: In Answer to Thomas Paine's Age of Reason (1794)
From Gilbert Wakefield, An Examination of The Age of Reason (1794)
From "Anonymous" [Elihu Palmer], The Examiners Examined: Being a Defense of The Age of Reason(1794)
From Joseph Priestley, An Answer to Mr. Paine's Age of Reason (1794)
From Uzal Ogden, An Antidote to Deism (1795)
From Richard Watson, An Apology for the Bible (1796)
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