The Age of Reason

ISBN-13: 9781554810451 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 190 str.

Thomas Paine

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Written between 1792 to 1795, whilst he was in prison, this book shocked 18th-century readers with its attack on the conventions of Christianity. Questioning beliefs and the role of religion in society, Paine's work continues to influence thinkers around the world today.

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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

1. A Letter, Being an Answer to a Friend on the Publication of The Age of Reason (1797)
2. “The Existence of God.” A Discourse Delivered at the Society of Theophilanthropists (1797)
3. “An Answer to the Bishop of Llandaff” (1797-1800)
4. “Worship and Church Bells: A Letter to Camille Jordan” (1797)
5. Exchange of Letters with Samuel Adams (1802-03)
6. “Of the Word Religion, and Other Words of Uncertain Signification” (1804)
7. “My Private Thoughts on a Future State” (1807)

Appendix B: The Religious Context of The Age of Reason

1. From Anthony Collins, A Discourse of Free-Thinking (1713)
2. From David Hume, “Of Miracles” (1748)
3. From Paul Henri Thiry, Baron d’Holbach, Of the Confused and Contradictory Ideas of Theology (1770)
4. Thomas Jefferson, An Act for Establishing Religious Freedom (1779) and A Letter to Peter Carr (1787)
5. From William Paley, Natural Theology (1802)

Appendix C: Responses to The Age of Reason

1. From “A Layman” [Thomas Williams], The Age of Infidelity: In Answer to Thomas Paine’s Age of Reason (1794)
2. From Gilbert Wakefield, An Examination of The Age of Reason (1794)
3. From “Anonymous” [Elihu Palmer], The Examiners Examined: Being a Defense of The Age of Reason(1794)
4. From Joseph Priestley, An Answer to Mr. Paine’s Age of Reason (1794)
5. From Uzal Ogden, An Antidote to Deism (1795)
6. From Richard Watson, An Apology for the Bible (1796)

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