books by Blaise Pascal (christianity indifferent authentique)

books by Blaise Pascal

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20 reviews
Blaise Pascal

Penguin Classics, 1995

Religion of the Heart and of the Head
Before actually reading "Pensees," I knew Blaise Pascal and his "Pensees" only from snippets of quotes such as, "The heart has its reason of which reason knows nothing" and from "Pascal's Wager": better to risk believing in God and living with Him for all eternity and being wrong, then risk not believing in God and living apart from Him in all eternity and because you were wrong. Having read ...

Pensees
Blaise Pascal, Roger Ariew

Hackett Publishing Company, 2005

Roger Ariew masterfully renders the oddities of 17th-century French vocabulary and syntax in this eloquent and philosophically astute translation?the first complete English translation based on the Sellier edition of Pascal?s manuscript, widely accepted as the version closest to what Pascal intended. Ariew provides a select bibliography of primary and secondary sources, a chronology of Pascal?s life and works, a brief history of the text, ...

Christianity for Modern Pagans: Pascal's Pensees

23 reviews
Blaise Pascal

Ignatius Press, 1993

A pleasure to read
Mr. Kreeft does it again in this book about Pascal's 'Pensses'. He picks up Pascal's best or most important 'pensees' and gives us his view of them. He does not intend to explain or interpret them, since they are to be interpreted individually by each of us, but he expands them, he adds to them what a modern reader -living in a neo-pagan world- would have come to his mind. Mr. Kreeft is a ...

Selected "Pensees" and Provincial Letters/Pensees et Provinciales choisies: A Dual-Language Book ...
Blaise Pascal

Dover Publications, 2004

Intended to convert religiously indifferent readers to Christianity, Pensées were published posthumously, to wide and ongoing acclaim. This selection of highlights focuses on their secular aspects. Written in support of the Jansenist movement, Provincial Letters captivated a large audience with their satirical wit, righteous indignation, and effervescent style. This is the only dual-language edition available.

Blaise Pascal: Thoughts, Letters, and Minor Works

1 review
Blaise Pascal

Cosimo Classics, 2007

A brief comment
Please be advised that this review is only on Pascal's Thoughts. I got this book as part of the Great Books of the Western World set, and of the 330 odd works and 54 volumes in that august set, this book was my favorite. Not because I was religious per se, but because I enjoyed reading the thoughts of a brilliant mathematician, philosopher, and thinker who could write so clearly and concisely ...

Foundations of the Christian Religion (Foundations of Faith) (Foundations of Faith)
Blaise Pascal

Relevant Books, 2006

Foundations of the Christian Religion (Foundations of Faith - Vol. 6)

Pensees (Thoughts) (Dover Philosophical Classics)

1 review
Blaise Pascal

Dover Publications, 2003

Great for Academic Study
This volume contains the raw, unedited (but translated) thoughts of Pascal. It reads sometimes like a typical first draft, albiet the first draft of a genius. However, for the average Christian wanting to learn of Pascal's perspective, the volume bogs down with logical arguments and criticisms of the day, and thus his universal themes become lost.

The Mind on Fire: Faith for the Skeptical And Indifferent (Victor Classics)
Blaise Pascal

Victor, 2006

Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) earned recognition as a renowned mathematician, physicist?and a man after God's heart. As he came to the forefront of geometry and physics, he turned his considerable analytical abilities to study religion or, as he said, to "contemplate the greatness and the misery of man." Pascal's classic defense of Christianity?Pensées?persuaded many a skeptic in his time. Today, editor James Houston has organized Pascal's ...

Pensees and Other Writings (Oxford World's Classics)

5 reviews
Blaise Pascal

Oxford University Press, USA, 2008

'The Great Pascal'
This Oxford's version of the Pensees is in some ways superior to the Penguin Classics version. The introduction, by Anthony Levi, gives a much better insight into the history behind the development of Pascal's 'thoughts'. As far as the biography is concerned, Oxford's version gives a much broader span of time concerning Blaise's life. A lot of people blame Pascal for not being like Montaigne, ...

Mind on Fire: A Faith for the Skeptical and Indifferent (Classics of Faith and Devotion)

4 reviews
Blaise Pascal

Bethany House Publishers, 1997

Pensees +
In case you're wondering, this IS the Pensees. The only difference is that these thoughts are arranged topically under a new title plus five letters from Pascal are included in the rear of the book. This is not an abridged edition of the Pensees. That being said, this book will stimulate your thinking about human nature, divine sovereignty, faith, logic and apologetics in a way that few other ...

Pensées de Pascal: Publiées dans leur texte authentique avec un commentaire suivi par Ernest Havet
Blaise Pascal

BookSurge Publishing, 2001

This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1894 edition by Ch.Delagrave, Paris.

The Provincial Letters

2 reviews
Blaise Pascal

Kessinger Publishing, 2004

Excellent Read; Humorous and Insightful
This series of letters by Blaise Pascal has it all; humor, a good guy (Pascal) and bad guys (Jesuits), and a moral. Pascal wrote these letters in defense of his Jansenist friends who were being branded as heretics by the Jesuits. At the time, the Jesuits were a powerful religious order who basically taught Christianity all over the world. In the Provincial Letters, Pascal exposes and ridicules ...

The Provincial Letters Of Blaise Pascal (1847)
Blaise Pascal

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2008

Bread and Wine: Readings for Lent and Easter

8 reviews
Wendell Berry, Dorothy L. Sayers, ...

Plough Publishing House, 2002

A unique spiritual experience.
These 72 brief essays are loaded with inspiring and challenging spiritual insight. The authors are incredibly diverse--Leo Tolstoy, Thomas a Kempis, Meister Eckhart, Martin Luther, Mother Teresa, and John Updike, to name a few. Not every contributor is a household name, but every reflection is moving and powerful... "Christianity is the only religion on earth that has felt that omnipotence ...