MA (Edinburgh), MA, BSc, DPhil (Oxford)
The Mind on Fire: A Faith for the Skeptical and Indifferent.
Blaise Pascal
James M. Houston & Os Guinness
Publisher : Regent College Publishing (April 2 2003)
Language : English
Paperback : 336 pages
ISBN-10 : 1573832456
ISBN-13 : 978-1573832458
Item weight : 428 g
Dimensions : 13.97 x 1.91 x 21.59 cm
About the Book
Blaise Pascal, the remarkable seventeenth-century mathematician, physicist, and religious thinker, rigorously refutes the belief that to become a Christian you must first commit intellectual suicide. He wrote to communicate the Christian faith to the skep
Table of Contents
Preface to the Classics of Faith and Devotion by James M. Houston
Editor's Note about Blaise Pascal
Chronology of the Life and Times of Pascal
Introduction by Os Guinness
Pascal's Testimony of His Conversion
The Pensées: Rearranged and Selected as a Christian Apologetic
1. Introduction
Part 1: The Misery of Man without God
2. Man's Natural Condition
3. Man's Unhappy Condition
4. Man's Boredom
5. Man Living Rationalistically
6. The Greatness of Man's Dignity
7. Human Contradictions
8. Human Distractions
9. The Philosophers' Quest for Happiness
10. The Quest for the Sovereign Good
Part 2: The Human Initiative of Reasoning
11. On the Contradictory Nature of Man
12. Reason Can Begin Again by Recognizing What It Can Never Know
13. Submission, the Correct Use of Reason
Part 3: The Divine Initiative
14. The Transition From Human Knowledge to Knowing God
15. The Corruption of Human Nature
16. The Falsity of Other Religions
17. What Makes True Religion Attractive?
18. Fundamentals of the Faith and Answers to Objections
19. Figurative Meanings of Old Testament Law
20. Rabbinic Writings
21. Perpetuity, or Lasting Principles of the Christian Faith
22. Proofs of Moses
23. Proofs of Jesus Christ
24. Prophecies of Scripture
25. Particular Figures of Prophecy
26. Christian Morality
27. Conclusion
Other Maxims from the Pensées and the Sayings
Letters Written to a Provincial by One of His Friends
Letter 1: Remarks on a Dispute among Theologians at the Sorbonne, to Censure A. Arnauld
Letter 2: On the Subject of Sufficient Grace
Letter 4: Concerning Actual Grace and Sins of Ignorance
Letter 5: The Motive of the Jesuits in Establishing a New Morality
Letter 10: Easy Expedience of the Jesuits with Regard to the Sacrament of Penance. Their Maxims in Regard to the Confession, Absolution, Contrition, and the Love of God.
A Prayer of Pascal, Asking God to Use Sickness in His Life Appropriately
A Guide to Devotional Reading
Scripture Index
Subject Index