1st Edition
Neither Angel nor Beast The Life and Work of Blaise Pascal
By Francis X.J. Coleman
Copyright 1986
256 Pages
by
Routledge
250 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
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Blaise Pascal began as a mathematical prodigy, developed into a physicist and inventor, and had become by the end of his life in 1662 a profound religious thinker. As a philosopher, he was most convinced by the long tradition of scepticism, and so refused – like Kierkegaard – to build a philosophical or theological system. Instead, he argued that the human heart required other forms of discourse... Read more
Preface Introduction Part 1: Scenes from the Life of Pascal 1. A Sister’s Biography 2. A Witch’s Spell 3. Pious Appraisals 4. The ‘Mémorial 5. Probing Nature and the Heart 6. Coming to Terms with God 7. The Nascent Polemicist 8. Letters to Family, Friends and Savants 9. God’s Champion Part 2: Views on the Works of Pascal I The Provincial Letters 10. The Politics of Orthodoxy 11. An Innocent Astonished 12. The Wiles of the Casuists 13. An Innocent on the Defensive II The Pensées 14. The Supreme Apologist 15. How to Sway the Doubtful 16. Man Without God 17. Man With God 18. The Wager 19. The Heart 20. The Mystery of Jesus 21. Life in the Church. Conclusion
Biography
Francis X.J. Coleman
