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Blaise Pascal - Reasons of the Heart (Paperback)
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Blaise Pascal - Reasons of the Heart (Paperback)
Series: Library of Religious Biography (LRB)
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Blaise Pascal (1623-1662), mathematician, physicist, inventor, and
religious thinker was a man at odds with his time. The optimism of
the Enlightenment and the belief among philosophers and scientists
that the universe was both discoverable and rational made them feel
invincible. Reason alone, declared the intellectuals, could
discover a God of natural religion that was to replace the God of
traditional Christianity. Pascal, on the other hand, was not so
confident. In his Pensees, he wrote, "The eternal silence of these
infinite spaces fills me with dread." For Pascal, the universe was
full of a mystery that went far beyond the powers of reason. Blaise
Pascal: Reasons of the Heart, the latest addition to Eerdmans
LIBRARY OF RELIGIOUS BIOGRAPHY series, captures Pascal's life and
times with a chronicle narrative based on the published sources and
Pascal's own works. Marvin O'Connell takes readers on an eloquent
journey into Pascal's world, showing the passion that drove the man
and the radical spirituality he sought in his own heart. In the
process, O'Connell also illumines the social, political, and
religious intrigue of seventeenth-century Paris, especially the
winner-take-all struggle between the Jesuits and the Jansenists,
with whom Pascal himself was allied. Written in an enjoyable style
accessible to all, this meticulously researched biography will
acquaint readers with the life and thought of Blaise Pascal, a
remarkable human being and luminous Christian thinker.
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