The Age of Reason

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.

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

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