TY  - BOOK
N2  - 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.
AB  - 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.
T1  - Revolutionary deists :early America's rational infidels /
DA  - 2011.
CY  - Amherst, N.Y. :
AU  - Walters, Kerry S.
AU  - Walters, Kerry S.
ET  - [Rev. ed.].
CN  - BL2747.4
CN  - BL2747.4
PB  - Prometheus Books,
PP  - Amherst, N.Y. :
PY  - 2011.
N1  - Rev. ed. of: Rational infidels.
ID  - 436186
KW  - Deism
SN  - 9781616141905 (pbk. : alk. paper)
SN  - 1616141905 (pbk. : alk. paper)
TI  - Revolutionary deists :early America's rational infidels /
ER  -