Paine, Scripture, and authority
Religious aspects of Authority
Rationalism
Enlightenment
Inspiration
Evidences, authority
Christianity and politics
Authority
Radicalism
History of doctrines
Religious aspects
Bible
Christianity
History
This study discloses the intellectual context and the personal pretext of Thomas Paine's assault on religion in The Age of Reason. It uncovers adumbrations of Paine's correlation of religion and politics in his earliest work, the ways in which his controversy with Edmund Burke served as a transition…
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