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Published in 1950: The Pensees is a collection of philosophical
fragments, notes and essays in which Pascal explores the
contradictions of human nature in psychological, social,
metaphysical and - above all - theological terms. Mankind emerges
from Pascal's analysis as a wretched and desolate creature within
an impersonal universe, but who can be transformed through faith in
God's grace.
Published in 1950: The Pensees is a collection of philosophical
fragments, notes and essays in which Pascal explores the
contradictions of human nature in psychological, social,
metaphysical and - above all - theological terms. Mankind emerges
from Pascal's analysis as a wretched and desolate creature within
an impersonal universe, but who can be transformed through faith in
God's grace.
Though Easter (like Christmas) is often trivialized by the culture
at large, it is still the high point of the religious calendar for
millions of people around the world. And for most of them, there
can be no Easter without Lent, the season that leads up to it. A
time for self-denial, soul-searching, and -spiritual preparation,
Lent is traditionally observed by daily reading and reflection.
This collection will satisfy the growing hunger for meaningful and
accessible devotions. Culled from the wealth of twenty centuries,
the selections in Bread and Wine are ecumenical in scope, and
represent the best classic and contemporary Christian writers.
Includes more than seventy Lenten and Easter readings by Alexander
Stuart Baillie, Alfred Kazin, Alister E. McGrath, Amy Carmichael,
Barbara Brown Taylor, Barbara Cawthorne Crafton, Blaise Pascal,
Brennan Manning, C. S. Lewis, Christina Rossetti, Christoph
Friedrich Blumhardt, Clarence Jordan, Dag Hammarskjold, Dale
Aukerman, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Dorothee Soelle, Dorothy Day,
Dorothy Sayers, Dylan Thomas, E. Stanley Jones, Eberhard Arnold,
Edith Stein, Edna Hong, Emil Brunner, Ernesto Cardenal, Fleming
Rutledge, Frederica Mathewes-Green, Frederick Buechner, Fyodor
Dostoevsky, G. K. Chesterton, Geoffrey Hill, George MacDonald,
Henri Nouwen, Henry Drummond, Howard Hageman, J. Heinrich Arnold,
Jean-Pierre de Caussade, Johann Christoph Arnold, John Dear, John
Donne, John Howard Yoder, John Masefield, John Stott, John Updike,
Joyce Hollyday, Jurgen Moltmann, Kahlil Gibran, Karl Barth,
Kathleen Norris, Leo Tolstoy, Madeleine L Engle, Malcolm
Muggeridge, Martin Luther, Meister Eckhart, Morton T. Kelsey,
Mother Teresa, N. T. Wright, Oscar Wilde, Oswald Chambers, Paul
Tillich, Peter Kreeft, Philip Berrigan, Philip Yancey, Romano
Guardini, Sadhu Sundar Singh, Saint Augustine, Simone Weil, Soren
Kierkegaard, Thomas a Kempis, Thomas Howard, Thomas Merton,
Toyohiko Kagawa, Walter J. Ciszek, Walter Wangerin, Watchman Nee,
Wendell Berry and William Willimon."
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Pensees (Paperback)
Blaise Pascal
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Pensees (Paperback, Revised Ed)
Blaise Pascal; Introduction by A. Krailsheimer; Translated by A. Krailsheimer
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‘If we submit everything to reason our religion will be left with nothing mysterious or supernatural’ Blaise Pascal, the precociously brilliant contemporary of Descartes, was a gifted mathematician and physicist, but it is his unfinished apologia for the Christian religion upon which his reputation now rests. The Penseés is a collection of philosohical fragments, notes and essays in which Pascal explores the contradictions of human nature in pscyhological, social, metaphysical and – above all – theological terms. Mankind emerges from Pascal’s analysis as a wretched and desolate creature within an impersonal universe, but who can be transformed through faith in God’s grace. This masterly translation conveys Pascal’s disarmingly personal tone and captures all the fire and passion of the original. Also contained in this volume are a comparison between different editions, appendices and a bibliography.
For much of his life Pascal (1623-62) worked on a magnum opus which
was never published in its intended form. Instead, he left a mass
of fragments, some of them meant as notes for the Apologie. These
were to become known as the Pensees, and they occupy a crucial
place in Western philosophy and religious writing. Pascal's general
intention was to confound scepticism about metaphysical questions.
Some of the Pensees are fully developed literary reflections on the
human condition,, some contradict others, and some remain jottings
whose meaning will never be clear. The most important are among the
most powerful aphorisms about human experience and behaviour ever
written in any language. This translation is the only one based on
the Pensees as Pascal left them. It includes the principal dossiers
classified by Pascal, as well as the essential portion of the
important Writings on Grace. A detailed thematic index gives access
to Pascal's areas of concern, while the selection of texts and the
introduction help to show why Pascal changed the plan of his
projected work before abandoning the book he might have written.
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bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Blaise Pascal, the remarkable seventeenth-century mathematician,
physicist, and religious thinker, rigorously refutes the belief
that to become a Christian you must first commit intellectual
suicide. He wrote to communicate the Christian faith to the
skeptical, to the indifferent, to the hostile. Many regard him as
the greatest of French prose writers. After his conversion at the
age of thirty-one, Pascal records how his mind blazed with the
burning conviction of being overwhelmed with light. For many years
he had examined God merely as a series of concepts. Now he stood
before God's presence and the reality of God Himself, the same God
who had appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. It was this that now
gave him "joy, joy, joy, tears of joy." The Mind on Fire contains
Pascals' Pensees, a systematic and uncompromising defense of
Christian belief, along with selections from his Letters to a
Provincial, his own description of his conversion, and a prayer for
the proper use of pain in his life. Dr. James M. Houston, editor of
the Classics of Faith and Devotion series, is a highly acclaimed
scholar and pioneer in the field of evangelical spirituality. He
came to North America from England in 1968 to lead Regent College
in Vancouver, Canada, a worldwide center of spiritual formation.
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