Revelation Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ==Background== With the [[Age of Enlightenment]] in Europe, beginning about the mid-17th century, the development of [[rationalism]], [[materialism]] and [[history of atheism|atheism]], the concept of supernatural revelation itself faced skepticism. In ''[[The Age of Reason]]'' (1794β1809), [[Thomas Paine]] developed the theology of [[deism]], rejecting the possibility of [[miracle]]s and arguing that a revelation can be considered valid only for the original recipient, with all else being [[hearsay]].<ref>{{cite book |last = Paine |first = Thomas |author-link = Thomas Paine |orig-year = 1794 |year = 1987 |editor1-last = Foot |editor1-first = Michael |editor1-link = Michael Foot |editor2-last = Kramnick |editor2-first = Isaac |title = The Thomas Paine Reader |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=GDRt70vGw9YC |page = 403 |publisher = Penguin Books |location = New York |isbn = 0-14-044496-3}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page