La reflexion teologica y moral mas importante de Pascal. Traduccion, prologo y edicion por el celebre critico literario Juan Bautista Bergua y Luis Ruiz Contreras. Blaise Pascal (1623-1662), un pensador profundamente cristiano, escribio Las Cartas Provinciales (Lettres Provinciales) bajo el seudonimo Louis de Montalte, entre los anos 1656 y 1657. Escritas en medio de la controversia teologica entre los jansenistas y los jesuitas, las cartas son una defensa del jansenista Antoine Arnauld, de Port-Royal, un amigo de Pascal que en 1656 fue condenado por el Faculte de Theologie de la...

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Originally published in 1942, this book constitutes the companion volume to The Heart of Pascal (1945); both volumes were formed using selections from Pascal's Pensees. The text gathers together a series of selections, presented in French, which illustrate Pascal's Christian faith and thoughts on the relationship between man and God. An appendix and preface by the editor are also provided. This is a highly informative book that will be of value to anyone with an interest in Pascal and his late thought."

Originally published in 1908, this book contains selections from Pascal's Pensees, translated into English. The text is divided into two main parts: the first part concerns the 'Misery of Man without God'; the second part discusses the 'Happiness of Man with God'. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in Pascal and his theological ideas."

" 'The heart has reasons which the mind does not understand.' How often one has heard that quoted, and quoted often to the wrong purpose For this is by no means an exaltation of the 'heart' over the 'head, ' a defence of unreason. The heart, in Pascal's terminology, is itself truly rational if it is truly the heart. For him, in theological matters, which seemed to him much larger, more difficult, and more important than scientific matters, the whole personality is involved." -From the Introduction by T.S. Eliot Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) left his Pensees incomplete at his death, but the...

Pascal, the brilliant mathematician, physicist, and engineer, presents in his posthumously titled Pensees, his philosophy of religion and a paradox rich and challenging defense of Christian faith. Says Pascal, "Knowledge has two extremes which meet; one is the pure natural ignorance of every man at birth, the other is the extreme reached by great minds who run through the whole range of human knowledge, only to find that they know nothing... but it is a wise ignorance which knows itself. Those who stand half-way... pretend to understand everything... they get everything wrong." The book is a...