000436186 000__ 01931cam\a2200337\a\4500 000436186 001__ 436186 000436186 005__ 20210513152326.0 000436186 008__ 100409s2011\\\\nyu\\\\\\b\\\\001\0\eng\\ 000436186 010__ $$a 2010014741 000436186 019__ $$a743435955$$a764298351$$a775733208 000436186 020__ $$a9781616141905 (pbk. : alk. paper) 000436186 020__ $$a1616141905 (pbk. : alk. paper) 000436186 035__ $$a(OCoLC)ocn466343545 000436186 035__ $$a436186 000436186 040__ $$aDLC$$beng$$cDLC$$dYDX$$dBTCTA$$dYDXCP$$dRNL$$dCDX$$dTLE$$dQQ3$$dUAT$$dLMR$$dYUS$$dBDX 000436186 042__ $$apcc 000436186 043__ $$an-us--- 000436186 049__ $$aISEA 000436186 05000 $$aBL2747.4$$b.W35 2011 000436186 08200 $$a211/.50973$$222 000436186 1001_ $$aWalters, Kerry S. 000436186 24510 $$aRevolutionary deists :$$bearly America's rational infidels /$$cKerry Walters. 000436186 250__ $$a[Rev. ed.]. 000436186 260__ $$aAmherst, N.Y. :$$bPrometheus Books,$$c2011. 000436186 300__ $$a279 p. ;$$c23 cm. 000436186 500__ $$aRev. ed. of: Rational infidels. 000436186 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 000436186 5050_ $$aThe "age of licentious liberty" : deism in America -- The ambivalent deist : Benjamin Franklin -- The frontier deist : Ethan Allen -- The iconoclastic deist : Thomas Paine -- The deistic Christian : Thomas Jefferson -- The crusader for deism : Elihu Palmer -- Deism's poet : Philip Freneau -- Zion restored : the decline and fall of American deism. 000436186 520__ $$aFor roughly eighty-five years-between 1725 and 1810-America was agitated by what can only be described as a revolutionary movement. This was not the well-know political revolution that culminated in the War of Independence, but a revolution in religious and ethical thought. Its proponents called their radical viewpoint "deism." They challenged Christian orthodoxy and instead endorsed a belief system that celebrated the power of human reason and saw nature as God's handiwork and the only "revelation" of divine will. 000436186 650_0 $$aDeism$$zUnited States. 000436186 7001_ $$aWalters, Kerry S.$$tRational infidels. 000436186 85200 $$bgen$$hBL2747.4$$i.W35$$i2011 000436186 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:436186$$pGLOBAL_SET 000436186 980__ $$aBIB 000436186 980__ $$aBOOK