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Blaise Pascal : reasons of the heart / Marvin R. O'Connell.

By: Material type: TextSeries: Library of religious biographyPublication details: Grand Rapids, Mich. : W.B. Eerdmans Publ. Co., c1997.Description: xxi, 210 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0802801587 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 282/.092 B 21
LOC classification:
  • BX4735.P26 O26 1997
Summary: 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.
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Monograph ( Printed materials) ARRUPE LIBRARY Main Collection Main Collection B1911.O18 1997 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 46500006656
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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.

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