Christianity for Modern Pagans: Pascal's Pensées Edited, Outlined, and ExplainedIgnatius Press, 1993 - 341 pages Peter Kreeft believes that Baise Pascal is the first post-medieval apologist. No writer in history, claims Kreeft, is a more effective Christian apologist and evangelist to today's uprooted, confused, secularized pagans (inside and outside the Church) than Pascal. He was a brilliant man--a great scientist who did major work in physics and mathematics, as well as an inventor--whom Kreeft thinks was three centuries ahead of his time. His apologetics found in his Pensees are ideal for the modern, sophisticated skeptic. |
Contents
OUTLINE | 8 |
Order nos 6 12 298 | 43 |
Wretchedness | 47 |
Wretchedness nos 401 403 75 412 | 51 |
Vanity | 73 |
Vanity of Human Justice | 86 |
Vanity of Human Reason | 96 |
Vanity of Dogmatism | 105 |
Passionate Truthseeking | 209 |
Body Mind | 218 |
The Heart | 228 |
Faith and Reason | 235 |
The Two Essential Truths | 279 |
The Wager | 291 |
THE POINT OF IT | 309 |
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