The Age of Reason

by Thomas Paine

• 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