Blaise Pascal
Subtitle: reasons of the heart
By: Marvin R. O'Connell.
Series: Library of religious biography
Publisher: W.B. Eerdmans Publ. Co.
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Grand Rapids, Mich
Language: eng
Number of pages: 210
Subjects: Pascal, Blaise, 1623-1662.; Jansenists -- France -- Biography.; Apologetics -- History -- 17th century.; France -- Intellectual life -- 17th century.
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-202) and index.