@article{436186, note = {Rev. ed. of: Rational infidels.}, author = {Walters, Kerry S. and Walters, Kerry S.}, url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/436186}, title = {Revolutionary deists : early America's rational infidels /}, publisher = {Prometheus Books,}, abstract = {For roughly eighty-five years-between 1725 and 1810-America was agitated by what can only be described as a revolutionary movement. This was not the well-know political revolution that culminated in the War of Independence, but a revolution in religious and ethical thought. Its proponents called their radical viewpoint "deism." They challenged Christian orthodoxy and instead endorsed a belief system that celebrated the power of human reason and saw nature as God's handiwork and the only "revelation" of divine will.}, recid = {436186}, pages = {279 p. ;}, address = {Amherst, N.Y. :}, year = {2011}, }