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The American deists : voices of reason and dissent in the early republic /
Challenging carvedinstone tenets of Christianity, deism began sprouting in colonial America in the early eighteenth century, was flourishing nicely by the American Revolution, and for all intents and purposes was dead by 1811. Despite its hasty demise, deism left a theological legacy. Christian sens...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lawrence, Kan. :
University Press of Kansas,
©1992.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- I believe in one God, Creator of the universe / Benjamin Franklin
- Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against errors / Thomas Jefferson
- Nature is God's revelation / Ethan Allen
- Let man study nature's laws! / Constantin François Chasseboeuf, Comte de Volney
- My own mind is my own church / Thomas Paine
- Reason, the glory of our nature / Elihu Palmer
- The reasoning power, celestial guest, the stamp upon the soul impress'd / Philip Freneau
- The temple of reason : indefense of pure religion
- Prospect, or, View of the moral world : virtue, the highest dignity of man
- The theophilanthropist : the love of God and man
- Sources and permissions
- Bibliographic essay.