Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One: The Myth of Deism’s Inactive and Distant God
Chapter Two: The Origins of Seventeenth-Century English Deism
Chapter Three: The Protestant Background of Eighteenth-Century English Deism
Chapter Four: God’s Fairness and Eighteenth-Century English Deism
Chapter Five: The English Deists and the Socratic Spiritual Tradition
Chapter Six: Jesus-centered Deism in England
Chapter Seven: The Religious Beliefs of Ben Franklin
Chapter Eight: The Religious Beliefs of Thomas Jefferson and John Adams
Chapter Nine: The Religious Beliefs of George Washington
Chapter Ten: Deism and the American Founders
Chapter Eleven: The Popularity and Decline of Thomas Paine’s Kind of Deism
Chapter Twelve: The Rebirth of Jesus-centered Deism in Liberal Protestantism
Conclusion: Contemporary American Deism
Appendix One: Supernatural Beliefs of the English Deists
Appendix Two: A Register of the English Deists
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