The Mind on Fire by Blaise Pascal

The Mind on Fire by Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal, the remarkable seventeenth-century mathematician, physicist, and religious thinker, rigorously refutes the belief that to become a Christian you must first commit intellectual suicide. He wrote to communicate the Christian faith to the skeptical, to the indifferent, to the hostile. Many regard him as the greatest of French prose writers. After his conversion at the age of thirty-one, Pascal records how his mind blazed with the burning conviction of being overwhelmed with light. For many years he had examined God merely as a series of concepts. Now he stood before God's presence and the reality of God Himself, the same God who had appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. It was this that now gave him joy, joy, joy, tears of joy. The Mind on Fire contains Pascals' Pensees, a systematic and uncompromising defense of Christian belief, along with selections from his Letters to a Provincial, his own description of his conversion, and a prayer for the proper use of pain in his life. Dr. James M. Houston, editor of the Classics of Faith and Devotion series, is a highly acclaimed scholar and pioneer in the field of evangelical spirituality. He came to North America from England in 1968 to lead Regent College in Vancouver, Canada, a worldwide center of spiritual formation.

Blaise Pascal, the son of a government official, was born in Clermont in 1623. He made an impact on mathematics, science, theological debates, and literature throughout his brief life. Converting to Jansenism, he got involved in a disagreement with the Jesuits, which resulted in his Lettres Provinciales, which are mostly responsible for his literary fame among the Pensees. He is often recognized as the best of French prose artists. He is a wonderful stylist. He died in 1662, following a long illness.

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ISBN 13	9781573832458
ISBN 10	1573832456
Title	The Mind on Fire
Author	Blaise Pascal
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Regent College Publishing,US
Year published	2003-03-20
Number of pages	336
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