The Age of Reason

by Paine, Thomas; Conway, Moncure Daniel

• ISBN13: 9780486433936
• ISBN10: 0486433935
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-04-22
• Publisher: Dover Publications

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Title-Page to the Original Paris Edition	v
Dedication	vii
Editor's Introduction	1	(20)
PART I.
The Author's Profession of Faith	21	(2)
Of Missions and Revelations	23	(3)
Concerning the Character of Jesus Christ, and His History	26	(2)
Of the Bases of Christianity	28	(2)
Examination in Detail of the Preceding Bases	30	(1)
Of the True Theology	31	(1)
Examination of the Old Testament	32	(6)
Of the New Testament	38	(7)
In What the True Revelation Consists	45	(2)
Concerning God, and the Lights Cast on his Existence and Attributes by the Bible	47	(3)
Of the Theology of the Christians; and the True Theology	50	(5)
The Effects of Christianism of Education. Proposed Reforms	55	(7)
Comparison of Christianism with the Religious Ideas Inspired by Nature	62	(6)
System of the Universe	68	(4)
Advantages of the Existence of Many Worlds in Each Solar System	72	(1)
Application of the Preceding to the System of the Christians	73	(2)
Of the Means Employed in All Time, and Almost Universally, to Deceive the People	75	(14)
Recapitulation	83	(2)
PART II.
Preface	85	(4)
The Old Testament	89	(63)
The New Testament	152	(31)
Conclusion	183	(13)
Letters Concerning ``The Age of Reason''	196