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Blaise Pascal

Apologist to Skeptics

Charles Sherrard MacKenzie

This book focuses on Blaise Pascal's Pensées, an apology for Christianity, which is regarded as Pascal's crowning achievement. Professor Charles Sherrard MacKenzie maintains that the lens best enabling us to understand Pensées is his fragment on the three orders of life: mental, material, and spiritual. This analysis also highlights the frustrations Pascal encountered while making scientific discoveries, as part of his quest for certainty in his and others' faith.
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University Press of America
Pages: 276 • Trim: 6 x 9
978-0-7618-4013-8 • Paperback • March 2008 • $68.99 • (£53.00)
Subjects: Religion / Christianity / Literature & the Arts
Charles Sherrard MacKenzie received his Ph.D. and M. Div. from Princeton Theological Seminary.
Part 1 Preface
Part 2 A Brief Chronology of Blaise Pascal's Life
Part 3 The Key to Pascal's Apologetic Pensée 308, The Three Orders
Part 4 Summary Diagram of Pascal's Three Orders
Part 5 Pascal's Journey through the Three Orders
Chapter 6 Pascal's World
Chapter 7 Pascal and the Material Order
Chapter 8 Pascal and the Order of the Mind
Chapter 9 Pascal and the Order of Love
Chapter 10 Pascal's New Life
Part 12 Three Orders: Keys to Pascal's Apologetic
Chapter 13 The Writing of the Pensées
Chapter 14 The Pensées: Chapters I-XI Human Misery without God
Chapter 15 The Pensées: Chapters XII-XIV Transition from Misery to Happiness
Chapter 16 The Pensées: Chapters XXIII-XXVII Pascal's Three Orders and Last Days
Part 17 Pascal's Legacy: His Thoughts—Past and Future
Chapter 18 Pascal's Legacy, Part I: Epistemology
Chapter 18 Pascal's Legacy, Part II: Ontology, Selfhood, and the Church
Part 19 Endnotes

Blaise Pascal

Apologist to Skeptics

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Summary
Summary
  • This book focuses on Blaise Pascal's Pensées, an apology for Christianity, which is regarded as Pascal's crowning achievement. Professor Charles Sherrard MacKenzie maintains that the lens best enabling us to understand Pensées is his fragment on the three orders of life: mental, material, and spiritual. This analysis also highlights the frustrations Pascal encountered while making scientific discoveries, as part of his quest for certainty in his and others' faith.
Details
Details
  • University Press of America
    Pages: 276 • Trim: 6 x 9
    978-0-7618-4013-8 • Paperback • March 2008 • $68.99 • (£53.00)
    Subjects: Religion / Christianity / Literature & the Arts
Author
Author
  • Charles Sherrard MacKenzie received his Ph.D. and M. Div. from Princeton Theological Seminary.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
  • Part 1 Preface
    Part 2 A Brief Chronology of Blaise Pascal's Life
    Part 3 The Key to Pascal's Apologetic Pensée 308, The Three Orders
    Part 4 Summary Diagram of Pascal's Three Orders
    Part 5 Pascal's Journey through the Three Orders
    Chapter 6 Pascal's World
    Chapter 7 Pascal and the Material Order
    Chapter 8 Pascal and the Order of the Mind
    Chapter 9 Pascal and the Order of Love
    Chapter 10 Pascal's New Life
    Part 12 Three Orders: Keys to Pascal's Apologetic
    Chapter 13 The Writing of the Pensées
    Chapter 14 The Pensées: Chapters I-XI Human Misery without God
    Chapter 15 The Pensées: Chapters XII-XIV Transition from Misery to Happiness
    Chapter 16 The Pensées: Chapters XXIII-XXVII Pascal's Three Orders and Last Days
    Part 17 Pascal's Legacy: His Thoughts—Past and Future
    Chapter 18 Pascal's Legacy, Part I: Epistemology
    Chapter 18 Pascal's Legacy, Part II: Ontology, Selfhood, and the Church
    Part 19 Endnotes

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