Blaise Pascal :
O'Connell, Marvin Richard.
Blaise Pascal : reasons of the heart / Marvin R. O'Connell. - Grand Rapids, Mich. : W.B. Eerdmans Publ. Co., c1997. - xxi, 210 p. ; 23 cm. - Library of religious biography . - Library of religious biography. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-202) and index.
This biography by Marvin R. O'Connell captures Pascal's life and times with a chronological narrative based on the published sources and Pascal's own works. From Pascal's early life as a child prodigy already experimenting in physics at the age of ten to his adult years as one of Europe's leading intellectuals, O'Connell takes readers on an eloquent journey into Pascal's world, showing them the passion that drove the man and the radical spirituality he sought in his own heart. In the process, O'Connell also illumines the social, political, and religious intrigue of seventeenth-century Paris, especially the winner-take-all struggle between the Jesuits and the Jansenists, with whom Pascal himself was allied.
0802801587 (pbk. : alk. paper)
97010578
Pascal, Blaise, 1623-1662.
Jansenists--France--Biography.
Apologetics--History--17th century.
France--Intellectual life--17th century.
BX4735.P26 / O26 1997
282/.092 B
Blaise Pascal : reasons of the heart / Marvin R. O'Connell. - Grand Rapids, Mich. : W.B. Eerdmans Publ. Co., c1997. - xxi, 210 p. ; 23 cm. - Library of religious biography . - Library of religious biography. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-202) and index.
This biography by Marvin R. O'Connell captures Pascal's life and times with a chronological narrative based on the published sources and Pascal's own works. From Pascal's early life as a child prodigy already experimenting in physics at the age of ten to his adult years as one of Europe's leading intellectuals, O'Connell takes readers on an eloquent journey into Pascal's world, showing them the passion that drove the man and the radical spirituality he sought in his own heart. In the process, O'Connell also illumines the social, political, and religious intrigue of seventeenth-century Paris, especially the winner-take-all struggle between the Jesuits and the Jansenists, with whom Pascal himself was allied.
0802801587 (pbk. : alk. paper)
97010578
Pascal, Blaise, 1623-1662.
Jansenists--France--Biography.
Apologetics--History--17th century.
France--Intellectual life--17th century.
BX4735.P26 / O26 1997
282/.092 B