The American Deists: Voices of Reason and Dissent in the Early Republic

by Kerry S. Walters

Book Overview

Challenging carved-in-stone tenets of Christianity, deism began sprouting in colonial America in the early 18th century, was flourishing nicely by the American revolution, and to all intents and purposes was dead by 1811. Despite its hasty demise, deism left a theological legacy. Christian sensibility would never be quite the same again.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700605401
• ISBN13: 9780700605408
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 394 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.