Editing Revelation (section)

==== Deism ====
With the development of [[rationalism]], [[materialism]], and [[history of atheism|atheism]] during the [[Age of Enlightenment]] in Europe beginning about the mid-17th century, the concept of supernatural revelation began to face skepticism. In ''[[The Age of Reason]]'' (1794–1809), [[Thomas Paine]] developed the theology of [[deism]], rejecting the possibility of [[miracles]] and arguing that a revelation may be considered valid only for the original recipient, with all else being [[hearsay]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Paine |first=Thomas |author-link=Thomas Paine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GDRt70vGw9YC |title=The Thomas Paine Reader |publisher=Penguin Books |year=1987 |isbn=0-14-044496-3 |editor1-last=Foot |editor1-first=Michael |editor1-link=Michael Foot |location=New York |page=403 |editor2-last=Kramnick |editor2-first=Isaac |orig-year=1794}}</ref>