The Age of Reason
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Thomas Paine's The Age of Reason; Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology, published in three parts from 1794, was a bestseller in America, where it caused a short-lived deistic revival. Promoting a creator-God while advocating reason in the place of revelation, Paine's controversial pamphlet caused his native British audience, fearing the results of the French Revolution, to receive it with more hostility than their American counterparts. This passionate and engaging recording of Paine's classic is as certain to provoke modern readers to thought as it did with his original audience.
Part I.Title-Page to the Original Paris EditionvDedicationviiEditor's Introduction1Chapter I.The Author's Profession of Faith21Chapter II.Of Missions and Revelations23Chapter III.Concerning the Character of Jesus Christ, and His History26Chapter IV.Of the Bases of Christianity28Chapter V.Examination in Detail of the Preceding Bases30Chapter VI.Of the True Theology31Chapter VII.Examination of the Old Testament32Chapter VIII.Of the New Testament38Chapter IX.In What the True Revelation Consists45Chapter X.Concerning God, and the Lights Cast on his Existence and Attributes by the Bible47Chapter XI.Of the Theology of the Christians; and the True Theology50Chapter XII.The Effects of Christianism on Education. Proposed Reforms55Chapter XIII.Comparison of Christianism with the Religious Ideas Inspired by Nature62Chapter XIV.System of the Universe68Chapter XV.Advantages of the Existence of Many Worlds in Each Solar System72Chapter XVI.Application of the Preceding to the System of the Christians73Chapter XVII.Of the Means Employed in All Time, and Almost Universally, to Deceive the People75Recapitulation83Part II.Preface85Chapter I.The Old Testament89Chapter II.The New Testament152Chapter III.Conclusion183Letters Concerning "The Age of Reason"196
