Charles Sherrard Mackenzie

Blaise Pascal

Apologist to Skeptics

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Produktbeschreibung

This book focuses on Blaise Pascal's Pensées, an apology for Christianity, which is regarded as Pascal's crowning achievement.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press of America
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. März 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 456g
• ISBN-13: 9780761840138
• ISBN-10: 0761840133
• Artikelnr.: 23542841

Autorenporträt

Charles Sherrard MacKenzie received his Ph.D. and M. Div. from Princeton Theological Seminary.

Inhaltsangabe

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