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The Age of Reason »

Authors: Thomas Paine, Moncure Daniel Conway
ISBN-13: 9780486433936, ISBN-10: 0486433935
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Dover Publications
Date Published: April 2004
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Thomas Paine

Book Synopsis

Paine's years of study and reflection on the role of religion in society culminated with this, his final work. An attack on revealed religion from the deist point of view — embodied by Paine's credo, "I believe in one God, and no more" — its critical and objective examination of Old and New Testaments cites numerous contradictions.

Part I.
	Title-Page to the Original Paris Edition	v
	Dedication	vii
	Editor's Introduction	1
Chapter I.	The Author's Profession of Faith	21
Chapter II.	Of Missions and Revelations	23
Chapter III.	Concerning the Character of Jesus Christ, and His History	26
Chapter IV.	Of the Bases of Christianity	28
Chapter V.	Examination in Detail of the Preceding Bases	30
Chapter VI.	Of the True Theology	31
Chapter VII.	Examination of the Old Testament	32
Chapter VIII.	Of the New Testament	38
Chapter IX.	In What the True Revelation Consists	45
Chapter X.	Concerning God, and the Lights Cast on his Existence and Attributes by the Bible	47
Chapter XI.	Of the Theology of the Christians; and the True Theology	50
Chapter XII.	The Effects of Christianism on Education. Proposed Reforms	55
Chapter XIII.	Comparison of Christianism with the Religious Ideas Inspired by Nature	62
Chapter XIV.	System of the Universe	68
Chapter XV.	Advantages of the Existence of Many Worlds in Each Solar System	72
Chapter XVI.	Application of the Preceding to the System of the Christians	73
Chapter XVII.	Of the Means Employed in All Time, and Almost Universally, to Deceive the People	75
	Recapitulation	83
Part II.
	Preface	85
Chapter I.	The Old Testament	89
Chapter II.	The New Testament	152
Chapter III.	Conclusion	183
	Letters Concerning "The Age of Reason"	196