Table of Contents

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

Appendix B: The Religious Context of The Age of Reason

Appendix C: Responses to The Age of Reason

Suggestions for Further Reading

About the Author

Kerry Walters is Professor of Philosophy at Gettysburg College. He has published numerous books on Christianity, and particularly on religion in early America.

Reviews

“There are many editions of The Age of Reason available for students and modern readers. Kerry Walters’ Broadview Edition is the best. It combines an astute introduction with up-to-the-moment bibliographic material. Walters also illuminates crucial aspects of the book and its arguments with hard-to-find contemporary documents that put Paine’s work in an international context.” — Bruce Kuklick, University of Pennsylvania“Kerry Walters’ new edition of Thomas Paine’s Age of Reason, along with its collection of pre- and post-publication material, is an invaluable addition to the Paine library. Most impressive is Walters’s eloquent and lucid introduction, which concisely places Paine’s Deism in the greater context of the British and French Enlightenment. It is an indispensable edition for undergraduate and graduate students studying history, philosophy, the history of religion, and the psychology of social ideas.” — Jack Fruchtman Jr., Towson University