Title
Revolutionary deists : early America's rational infidels / Kerry Walters.
Edition
[Rev. ed.].
ISBN
9781616141905 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1616141905 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Imprint
Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2011.
Language
English
Description
279 p. ; 23 cm.
Call Number
BL2747.4 .W35 2011
Dewey Decimal Classification
211/.50973
Summary
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.
Note
Rev. ed. of: Rational infidels.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The "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.
