About the book: 1767 / "Homelies, prononces a Londres en 1765, dans une assemblee privee." This work, published in 1767, consists of four parts ("sermons"): on atheism, on superstition, on the understanding of the Old Testament, on the understanding of the New Testament. Voltaire combines criticism of atheism and the justification of deism with a decisive criticism of actually existing religions and churches, primarily Judaism and Christianity. This edition publishes the first two parts of Edifying Sermons".