The Age of Reason

The Age of Reason: Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology by Thomas Paine

From 1795 to 1822 The Age of Reason was banned from publication in the United Kingdom. For more information see Wikipedia: The Age of Reason#Britain

• Part I
  • Chapter I - The Author's Profession of Faith
  • Chapter II - Of Missions and Revelations
  • Chapter III - Concerning the Character of Jesus Christ, and His History
  • Chapter IV - Of the Bases of Christianity
  • Chapter V - Examination in Detail of the Preceding Bases
  • Chapter VI - Of the True Theology
  • Chapter VII - Examination of the Old Testament
  • Chapter VIII - Of the New Testament
  • Chapter IX - In What the True Revelation Consists
  • Chapter X - Concerning God, and the Lights Cast on His Existence and Attributes by the Bible
  • Chapter XI - Of the Theology of the Christians; and the True Theology
  • Chapter XII - The Effects of Christianism on Education; Proposed Reforms
  • Chapter XIII - Comparison of Christianism with the Religious Ideas Inspired by Nature
  • Chapter XIV - System of the Universe
  • Chapter XV - Advantages of the Existence of Many Worlds in Each Solar System
  • Chapter XVI - Application of the Preceding to the System of the Christians
  • Chapter XVII - Of the Means Employed in All Time, and Almost Universally, to Deceive the Peoples
  • Recapitulation
• Part II
  • Preface
  • Chapter I - The Old Testament
  • Chapter II - The New Testament
  • Chapter III - Conclusion