God Owes Us Nothing
Subtitle: A Brief Remark on Pascal's Religion and on the Spirit of Jansenism
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: May 22, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780226450537
Subjects: Nature & existence of God; Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church; Theology; Philosophy Of Christianity; Roman Catholic Doctrinal Theology (General); Religion; Philosophy; Free Will & Determinism; Good & Evil; Religious; Philosophy / Religious; Christianity - Catholic; Jainism
First sentence: We are going to talk about what is perhaps the most formidable and intractable puzzle of Christian thinking-the confrontation of divine grace with the human free will-not in order to depicts its centuries-long and very confusing history or, God forbid, to contribute to its solution, but to see how this puzzle became the focus of a struggle between modernity and reaction embodied respectively in Jesuit and Jansenist doctrines in the seventeenth century, how Saint Augustine became a victim of this battle, and what role was played in it by Pascal.