The Age of Reason is an influential work by Thomas Paine that advocates for the philosophical position of Deism. It challenges institutionalized religion and the legitimacy of the Bible while promoting reason and free thinking.

Titlepage

Imprint

Editor’s Introduction

I: The Author’s Profession of Faith

II: Of Missions and Revelations

III: Concerning the Character of Jesus Christ, and His History

IV: Of the Bases of Christianity

V: Examination in Detail of the Preceding Bases

VI: Of the True Theology

VII: Examination of the Old Testament

VIII: Of the New Testament

IX: In What the True Revelation Consists

X: Concerning God, and the Lights Cast on His Existence and Attributes by the Bible

XI: Of the Theology of the Christians; and the True Theology

XII: The Effects of Christianism on Education; Proposed Reforms

XIII: Comparison of Christianism with the Religious Ideas Inspired by Nature

XIV: System of the Universe

XV: Advantages of the Existence of Many Worlds in Each Solar System

XVI: Application of the Preceding to the System of the Christians

XVII: Of the Means Employed in All Time, and Almost Universally, to Deceive the Peoples

Recapitulation

Part I

Preface

I: The Old Testament

II: The New Testament

III: Conclusion

Part II

To the Ministers and Preachers of All Denominations of Religion

An Essay on Dreams

An Examination of the Passages in the New Testament

Contradictory Doctrines Between Matthew and Mark

Private Thoughts of a Future State

Part III

The Age of Reason

Endnotes

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non_fiction

philosophy